Fast AlltheWeb Q-card

Open the Fast AlltheWeb search form in a separate window.

Note that from March 2004 the AlltheWeb site is no longer powered by the Fast AlltheWeb search engine. Instead data is fetched from the Yahoo! search engine. This means that some of the features listed below may no longer be working.

Links:	Fast AlltheWeb advanced search
Home page	www.alltheweb.com
Will search in…	www images MP3 Files
Default search	AND
Case sensitive	No
Natural language queries	No
Spell check	English
Translates pages into another language	No
SYNTAX
Find pages that have one or more of these words	(dog cat) dog or cat (On the Advanced Web Search page with "Boolean Query" selected from the "Query Type" pulldown menu) or menu
Find pages that contain all these words	+dog +cat dog AND cat (On the Advanced Web Search page with "Boolean Query" selected from the "Query Type" pulldown menu) dog RANK cat (Results will contain the term "dog" and preferably include the term "cat".On the Advanced Web Search page with "Boolean Query" selected from the "Query Type" pulldown menu)
Find pages that contain the first, but not the last, word	dog -cat dog ANDNOT cat (On the Advanced Web Search page with "Boolean Query" selected from the "Query Type" pulldown menu) or menu
Find pages that contain the following exact phrase	"raining cats and dogs" or menu
Find pages that contain these words in near proximity of each other	No
Find pages that contain words that starts with the following letters (joker-signs, truncation, wildcard)	No
Nesting (Use of parentheses)	No
FIELD SEARCH
Find pages that have the following http-address (or parts of address)	url.tld:domainname -- will find pages within the specified domain. url.host:name -- will find pages on a specific site, hence url.host:www.pandia.com will find pages on the pandia.com site. url.all:text -- will find pages with the specific word or phrase in the URL
Find pages under the following domain	url.tld:no -- will find pages from Norway. url.tld:com -- will find pages from commercial sites. or menu
Find pages that contain images with names that contains the following word	No, but link.extension:text will find pages that contain links to files with this or that file extension, hence link.extension:jpeg will find pages that contain .jpeg images.
Find pages that contain links to the following address	link.all:www.pandia.com
Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title	normal.title:text
Find pages that contain the following text anywhere in the HTML-code	normal.titlehead:text -- will find pages with the specified word or phrase in the title or in its head content (including metatags, presumably)
Find pages written in a particular language	Pull down menus
Limit search to a particular file type	filetype: pdf (Acrobat files) filetype: msword (Word documents) filetype: flash (Flash presentations)
Find pages made in the following time period	No
More information on advanced searching	Advanced search help

You may use any AlltheWeb search form to search any of the AlltheWeb databases by using a special search syntax:

The image database: pics: or images: or image:
The news database: news:
The regular Web search engine: web:
The video database: video: or videos:
The ftp database: ftp:
The audio database: mp3: or audio:

To search for news on Iraq, you enter the following search query:

news: iraq

Read also Pandia's article on how to use the AlltheWeb search form as a calculator.

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