deep searching? use ATW

[rcjordan]

I'm a big believer in watching my own search habits to help tune my crystal ball. (I'm also, in marketing parlance, a recommender.) FWIW, over the last 2 or 3 months, I've noticed that I've pretty much migrated to alltheweb over Google for deep search, even though the G toolbar is right there.

[lazerzubb]

You mean that they index more dynamic url's or what? care to elaborate?

[rcjordan]

Mostly, it's just a deeper index. For example, I've been running into stuff I know is here at WebmasterWorld, and I know the keywords that should bring it up. Google misses, ATW doesn't.

[lazerzubb]

Ye i have been in that situation quite some time, in the end though it's often located at Foo, which doesn't get indexed by any off them.

[korkus2000]

I have to agree. alltheweb seems to have an all incompassing index. Dynamic URLs, and just all around better relavence because it seems to have more obscure pages.

[rcjordan]

>just all around better

On my routine serps (not talking about deep search here -but what JohnQ is likely to pull up), I see the quality as roughly equal between google and atw. But start the 4, 5, 12-word +/- searches and I'm finding it w/ atw.

[vitaplease]

IMO, its not the quality that makes us use ATW, its the advanced search features. Would Google offer equal advanced search features, I do not think I would do anything else at ATW other than backlink checks.

I love there very flexible date related advanced search and the "should include" variations with enless add-on possibilities.

[ulounge]

I find that ATW does not do a very good job indexing dynamic urls. At least not as good as google does. It has only spidered my non-dynamic links, while google has spidered my entire site over the past 2 months.