Same lady, different clothes.
Although Ask Jeeves was recently purchased by a major web conglomerate, to the
best of my knowledge, it has an independent index. On the other hand, AltaVista
and AllTheWeb are both owned by Overture, which in turn is owned by Yahoo!. They
all use the same index. So basically, even though we're often told that in order
to get truly worthwhile search results we should run our search through a number
of different search engines, there's no difference between these three.
Go to: Equal in the eyes of cyberspace.