by Jonathan Shakes, Marc Langheinrich, and Professor Oren Etzioni at the University of Washington

Known Bugs and Problems

If you have encountered something we don't have listed here, please send a bug report to ahoy@cs.washington.edu detailing the problem you encountered. Thanks!

Be also sure to check out the FAQ-Page if you have more question about our service!

Known Problems

Ahoy! couldn't find my homepage.

Ahoy! works in two ways:

1. It filters the output of other search services, and
2. It sometimes tries to guess the URL.

If neither technique works, Ahoy! will fail. Ahoy! does not currently maintain its own list of homepages.

If you are interested to see what the other services found: from the "results" screen that is displayed after a search, follow the link labelled Ahoy! considered xx references from the Metacrawler. If you find that one of the other services found your page but Ahoy! did not display it, please let us know -- that's a bug!

Ahoy! makes mistakes with hyphenated first names.

Ahoy won't be able to find anything useful if you search for "Zsa-Zsa Gabor" (for example). Until we fix this, try searching for "Zsa Zsa Gabor" instead.

Ahoy! doesn't work for me.

Are you using AOL's browser? Unfortunately, Ahoy! is not compatible with this browser.

Ahoy! searched for a while and then stopped unexpectedly before finishing.

We're trying to track this bug down and squash it, so if this happens to you, please let us know what time you were searching and whom you were searching for. Most of the time you can work around this problem by re-submitting your search.

If it fails all the time though - you're most likely to have encountered a rather serious bug - tell us immediately and we will fix it ASAP!