Typical Search: maybeword +yesword -"no phrase" (maybeword only if "any of the words" is selected)
Default Operator: AND ("all of the words" is selected on default)
Boolean: +, - or NOT, " ". OR would be written as (word1 word2)
Case Sensitivity: not case sensitive
Word Stemming: none
Stop Words: not used
Special Keywords: (details) url.tld: url.host: url.domain: url.all: link.extension: link.all: normal.title: normal.titlehead:
Index: Fast only uses its own index, which is about 2 billion pages (only Google has more, but not many more)
Unique: search tips, query re-writing, dynamic topic clustering, integrated results, multimedia searches
Customize: preferences
More:
Fast (AllTheWeb is Fast's search engine) has one of the largest indexes on the web, and is now the freshest, having about 30% of their database reindexed weekly. Despite downsizing, it is one of the most innovative search engines. It now includes topic clustering (grouping of websites into topics, based partly on the ODP) and query re-writing (changing what you type into a better query). Fast now powers Lycos, Scirus, and quite a few other search engines, many of them European. Fast now powers FirstGov. Fast's other searches (news, images, audio, video, and FTP) are some of the best on the web. On web search result pages, Fast provides search tips, tells you if your query was re-written, and displays several results from Fast's other vertical searches. AllTheWeb now has very advanced customization.

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