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Old 03-11-2011
AllTheWeb closing
It was officially announced that AllTheWeb is closing. Yahoo! no longer supports the function as per april 2011: AlltheWeb.com
Before the world turned to google by default, there used to be a plethora of search engines. Most of them gave a headache with the prolific use of colors and animated gifs or were simply link farms. AllTheWeb was clean and spartan, but that was not the reason I used it so much. The reason was blazing speed. No other search engine gave the performance of AllTheWeb and it gave mostly very accurate results.
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Old 03-11-2011
And now we have this useless 'google instant' thing that actually slows down our network by spamming surplus connections, argh...
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Old 03-12-2011
I'm also not a big fan of Google Instant or any of these real time "match and display for us" gizmos.
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Old 03-12-2011
Sad to hear this...
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Old 03-13-2011
The search engine market used to be a lot more diffuse, with different providers offering different type of services. Now the oligopoly is clearly established. Even cuil.com is gone.
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