Editing AlltheWeb (section)

==Traits==
When AlltheWeb started in 1999, FAST aimed to provide their database to other search engines, major portals, [[ISPs]] and content sites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.fast.no:80/company/press/twbs02081999.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991123023343/http://www.fast.no/company/press/twbs02081999.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1999-11-23|title=Fast Search & Transfer - World's Biggest Internet Search Engine Goes Online|date=1999-11-23|access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref> By August 2, 1999, the AlltheWeb database had grown to 200 million unique [[URL|URLs]].<ref name=":0" /> By June 2002, their crawler had indexed over 2 billion pages.<ref name="PR2002-06-17">{{cite press release | publisher=Fast Search & Transfer | date=2002-06-17 | url=http://www.fastsearch.com/press.aspx?m=63&amid=1383 | title=FAST's ALLTHEWEB.COM dethrones Google as the world's largest search engine | access-date=2006-12-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061227221338/http://fastsearch.com/press.aspx?m=63&amid=1383 | archive-date=27 December 2006 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

AlltheWeb claimed a few advantages over Google, such as a fresher database, more advanced search features, search clustering and a completely customizable look.<ref name="PR2002-06-17" /><ref>{{cite press release | publisher=Fast Search & Transfer | date=2006-06-25 | url=http://www.fastsearch.com/press.aspx?m=63&amid=1371 | title=Fast launches ALLTHEWEB.COM Alchemist customized search tool | access-date=2006-12-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061225152111/http://fastsearch.com/press.aspx?m=63&amid=1371 | archive-date=25 December 2006 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | date=2002-06-17 | url=http://www.microdocs-news.info/newsGoogle/2003/06/25.html  | title=AllTheWeb Now A Better Search Experience Than Google | journal=Microdoc News | access-date=2006-12-17 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030704024758/http://www.microdocs-news.info/newsGoogle/2003/06/25.html |archive-date = 2003-07-04}}</ref>