Largest Web Search Coverage? (FAST)

[Cliff Urr]

...or so is their claim (200 million+ URLs):

http://www.alltheweb.com/

"Boston - August 2, 1999 - Fast Search & Transfer ™ (FAST™) 
developers of the industry's most comprehensive search 
technology for the Internet - today announced FAST Search™, The 
World's Biggest Search Engine™, located at 
http://www.alltheweb.com . FAST is the first company to create a 
search engine with the ultimate goal of searching "All The Web, All 
The Time™". FAST Search is the result of more than a decade of 
research into optimizing search algorithms and architectures, a 
project originally initiated at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 
Trondheim. 

FAST Search currently includes more than 200 million unique URLs 
in its database, making its catalog almost twice the size of search 
engine reseller Inktomi™ and three to four times bigger than several
popular search engines. FAST intends to resell FAST Search to 
major portals, search engines, ISPs, and content sites." 

Cliff Urr
Dominican College Library
202-529-5300