AlltheWeb is a minor Internet search engine that ebuted in mid-1999. It grew out from FTP Search, Tor Egge's doctorate thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which he started on in 1994, which in turn resulted in the formation of Fast Search and Transfer established on July 16, 1997. It was used primarily as a show piece site for FAST's enterprise search engine. Although rivaling Google in size and technology, AlltheWeb never became as popular.