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March 04, 2003
European search engine Kartoo given a radical facelift
While most other search sites including AlltheWeb (see below) presents stripped down text oriented designs that loads fast in any browser, Kartoo has decided to make use of the most advanced presentation technology. Flash included.
Kartoo is a visually "field" oriented search engine that presents results graphically. The sites found are like islands in an ocean of various search topics. You may click on these islands to get to the sites, or you may click on a topic to rephrase your search. Click on a plus sign and the term is added to your query, click on a minus and it is excluded from the results.
Experts have shown that perception is facilitated considerably by visual aids. Furthermore, quite a large percentage of surfers are said to be visually oriented. These surfers may find the text oriented search engines confusing, but might feel right at home with engines like Kartoo.
Note, however, that due to the use of advanced graphics, Kartoo may be a bit slow on some machines. Those of you who are more text oriented will find the sites and the search terms find in the left hand column of the result pages as well.
Source: Pandia
New version of the AlltheWeb search engine
In January AlltheWeb introduced true Boolean searching. This time the changes are more cosmetic. There is a leaner front page with a new color palette. The result pages have been simplified and the banner ads have been removed.
Search engine marketers would probably find the "AlltheWeb URL Investigator" interesting. By entering the Web address (URL) of a site into the search box the results will tell you who owns the domain, what language the site is written in, its sub domains and size, the date it was last updated, and a link to see how the site looked in the past.
AlltheWeb will for instance give the following data for a search for "www.alltheweb.com": Find all 3,204,867 external web pages that link to "www.alltheweb.com"
And no, AlltheWeb has not introduced a cache feature similar to the one at Google. The "used to look" link goes to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Source: Pandia