AltaVista is one of the best search engines. For aid in conducting searches, print the help file by clicking the button found at the upper right part of the query box. One drawback to AltaVista is that it offers no parental control options and may show inappropriate text when queried on innocuous topics. For example, if a child looks for "toys," they may get explicit references to sexual toys.
One of the most successful and largest search engines. It currently (Sept 99) provides search results for Search MSN.
AltaVista is Digital Equipment Corporation's (Comppaq's) search engine. AltaVista has joined with Yahoo to do some cooperative development on search engines and directories.
AltaVista is one of the most popular search engines on the World Wide Web.
Used to be the #1 search engine until Google came along. Now more popular for its free online translation service - babelfish.altavista.com.
Well-known search engine in the internet.
An Internet search engine at http://www.altavista.digital.com
(www.altavista.com) A popular search engine.
One of the first large scale search engines.
A World Wide Web search site hosted by Digital Equipment Corporation. AltaVista may be found at URL http://www.altavista.digital.com/.
What is altavista search engine
Search engine technology and web site made by the Digital Equipment Corp.
Web and Usenet search engine.
AltaVista is the most popular A Tour of the Internet, Where to Go...Search Engine on the Internet. It has indexed the contents of over 31 million Web pages found on 476,000 servers. It has also indexed four million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. In early May 1997, AltaVista reported nearly 30 million accesses each weekday. In addition to full-text searches, AltaVista can also search graphic images and tell you who is linked to your own Web pages. AltaVista's search robot, known as Scooter, can look at and collect data from three million Web pages per day. Its indexer, Ni2, indexes one gigabyte of data per hour. In addition to AltaVista's free public search service, its parent company, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) sells AltaVista for individual use (downloaded to your computer, it can search everything on your hard disk) and for enterprise intranet. The AltaVista product offerings are described at DEC's AltaVista Web site.
A popular search engine located at http://www.altavista.com
Probably the finest and most powerful search engine on the Web. Visit http://www.altavista.digital.com/ and try it. Read the advanced help on how to improve and refine your queries, and learn to use the recently added Live Topics to categorize your results.
A popular search engine, indexing more than 140 million pages. Until 1998, this search engine provided the search facility for Yahoo. Altavista indexes all of the words in a web page. You are asked to submit just the main page of your site. The Altavista spider will then explore your site and index a representative sample of the pages.
One of the most popular search engines. Web address is www.altavista.com See also: search engines
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