ATW combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine. Yahoo owns All The Web (ATW), and ATW has the largest web search database, it is unknown whether Yahoo will utilize its own ATW or Inktomi database to provide results to Yahoo search results.

ATW’s index (provided by Yahoo!) comprises billions of web pages, as well as tens of millions of PDF and MS Word files. Yahoo! frequently scans the entire web to ensure that our content is fresh and to reduce broken links. ATW offers a variety of specialized search tools and advanced search features, and supports searching in 36 different languages. ATW’s News search (provided by Yahoo!) provides up to the minute news from thousands of news sources all across the globe, with hundreds of stories indexed every minute. Image, audio, and video searches comprise hundreds of millions of multimedia files.

Alltheweb.com, a Yahoo! operated website, helps you find what you are looking for on the Web using results offered by Yahoo! You do not need to be a Yahoo registered user in order to explore. When visitors perform a search on alltheweb.com, their search terms are recorded on Yahoo log files. Every link on Alltheweb.com offered by Yahoo is redirected through Yahoo servers. Web search and News search results are offered by Yahoo. When visitors perform a Web or News search on Alltheweb.com, Yahoo keeps track of which search terms are admired through Yahoo Search Technology.

Web Sites submitted through the AlltheWeb.com Partner Site PFI program will prolong to receive distribution until their subscriptions expire. Alltheweb.com uses its own cookies to assist personalize your experience, and to keep track of the preferences you set. Yahoo employs Web Beacons on alltheweb.com website in order to count users and to recognize users by accessing Yahoo cookies. Alltheweb.com does not serve ads using third party advertising networks and does not permit third party ad network cookies to be served from this domain.

AlltheWeb now decides which country you are coming from and presents results in your own language as well as in English. However, one can select one of the other 49 languages available through AllTheWeb’s customized settings. This feature is available for news search and web search.

Search engines like AllTheWeb contains Web pages and other files (Word, PDF etc.) that are available to its search engine spiders. These spiders are, however, not able to explore other databases, like Yellow Pages, online phone and address books, plain and train schedules, shopping catalogs, encyclopedias, maps etc. -- what's frequently referred to as "the Hidden Web".