Oingo has moved out of beta. It remains to be seen who may take up Oingo on the offer. Meanwhile, its site continues to use the Open Directory and AltaVista database to showcase its product. It is currently available in beta for public view on its site. It offers several different search options, such as copy and paste and drag and drop for grabbing a block of text to use as the search string.
Output also features links to companies and news.
The general Web database is relatively small, and results do not display basic information like date, URL, or file size. More surprisingly for a Dialog product, it does not even give a count for how many hits it retrieved. WholeWeb.net is undertaking an ambitious goal that will compete directly with Fast's rate of growth. WholeWeb.net has no public search site at this point, but it has announced the ambitious goal of indexing one billion Web pages by June 30, 2000. Its demonstration database allows the user to determine the weight of search terms and, in the advanced search, which ranking criteria to use.