"Geeks on the Half Shell":

Google: 1

AllTheWeb: 0

Moreover: 1 and it still crawls faster

http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?o=portal&h=Search+results+for...+%22Geeks+on+the+Half+Shell%22&query=%22Geeks+on+the+Half+Shell%22

I took a look at a sample of FASTs stories--those returned searching for

'afghanistan' in english

at c 3.30 pm GMT 21 nov 2001--and compared their pick up times and relevance

with Moreover's profession. Of the top 10 results, one was a

duplicate, two were links to pages of links (not articles) on minor local US papers, and one an interactive guide to daisy cutter

bombs--not irrelevant but also not a top ten afghan news story. Of the

remaining six stories, Moreover picked up three of them, 15,3 and 13 hours earlier

than FAST, who also gave the BBC source name on one of these in russian not

english. Of the three that Moreover did not pick up, FAST picked two of them up 5,

and 23 hours after the site claimed that they had been posted (the third is

not time stamped on the site).

The top ten stories returned by a search for 'afghanistan' on Moreover were

all news stories, all links went directly to the story & the biggest gap

between the sites claimed posting time and Moreover's pick up time was 1 hr 55.

There was only one story that appeared in both. Like FAST, Moreover returned

stories from 7 different sources (counting sections of CNN as one), but

whereas 6 of Moreover's were original publications, only four of Allthe Web's

were.

so-- AlltheWeb:6/10 v Moreover:10/10 for relevance to 'top ten afghan stories' And thats not

factoring in the quality of sources.