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.