Sunday, October 12, 2008

Week 7, Post 2.1 Allth.at Review

Strengths
Catchy ironic name
Ability to fine tune searches by focusing on or filtering out key words
Ability to save searches
Separates out searches by engines and directories
Weaknesses
Low results, only shows top 10 per search engine
Some might not like how it separates out the searches by engine
Not related to popular mid-90's Nickelodeon show
Won't let you continue to check for results unless you sign in to an account
Runs.. Very... Slow...
Search Engines and Directories Searched
By Default:
Google
Yahoo
Ebay
Amazon
Ability to add:
Overstock
Buy.com
technorati
MSN
Alexa
And the Ability to add any other
Databases
Web
Shopping
News
Operators
Default operation
Search operators supported Math, Boolean
Proximity or exact phrase Proximity
Truncation or stemming yes
Wildcard yes
Other

Case Sensitivity
There are no issues with case sensitivity
Stop Words
All of the ususal stop words seem to work fine.
Advanced Search Function
I couldn't find any kind of advanced search.
Limits
Date NO
File type NO
Field searching NO
Language NO
Family filter NO
Domain or site Yes
Other


Sorting
Sorts out pages by search engine or directory by the top 5 choices.
Display
Number of hits no
Open in new window or tab new window
Cached pages no
Clustering no
Thumbnails no
Suggestions for refining/narrowing search Yes
Spell check no
Sponsored results identified no
Update date no
Other


Help Function
none. There is a blog that shows updates, but has not had a new feature since June 15.
Special Features
Creator Blog
Join the Community
Ability to give feedback


Allth.at seems to be fairly stable. It tends to run a little sluggish at times. Of the 3 I reviewed I would probably recomend this one the most.

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