altavista.com

AltaVista.com is a search engine website allowing users to input keywords to retrieve from websites held within a large index. First launched in 1995, it quickly rose in popularity due to its high level of reliability and ease of use. It has since been purchased by Yahoo and remains an active part of the Internet. AltaVista.com offers the user a clear and accessible display which is common to most popular search engines. Towards the top of the page rests a search bar where users can input keywords into a field and click the corresponding "Find" button. The search process will quickly generate results based on words entered and users are able to click ...  Read the complete review

altavista.com is a search engine website. Firstly to start off, for those of you that have been hiding under a rock all these years haha, what is a search engine? Well a search engine is a website that provides relevant results that the user requires when the user types in the search box what they are looking for, the search engine finds these results by ''crawling'' other websites. Personally i really like altavista.com, it has a very simple layout it is very easy to use, it is not flashy and does not have too much on the homepage as i find yahoo! does. Most importantly that i should comment on about this search engine is that the results that are ...  Read the complete review

###Intro### Altavista used to be the world's largest search engine, but then it went portal, and then it wasn't. A company then bought it and turned it into a Google style search engine, but with MP3 and video search. However, the new additions didn't return. ###So what's it use?### The MP3 search is useful, but Lycos Music beats it, the image search is good, but you have Google images. The only reasons, in my view, why you would use it are to find old, abandoned webpages and use it's Babelfish translation tool. ###Babelfish?### Yes, Babelfish is one of the web's best translation tools. It breaks the language ...  Read the complete review

AltaVista is less useful than it once was. You may have noticed a lot of search engines featuring paid listings recently, and even a number of them that only include paid-for entries. AltaVista has more or less joined their ranks, although it doesn't like to say this outright. There are two prices for listing, £299 and £149 at the last time I checked. The higher price allows a company to list over 500 pages, and gets it indexed faster. Who can afford this? Large and medium-sized companies, of course. Small local businesses, charitable organisations, clubs and individuals don't get a look in ...  Read the complete review

Altavista.com is one of the better web search engines out there, it’s not the best but not far from it. The AltaVista search engine has been split into a U.K edition, which is far more useful to us Brits requiring information in out language. While including the whole world would give us a larger result (Information) it would give us large amount of what I would call waffle, site in different languages, products you can by internationally and differing price structures. AltaVista does provide a rather useful translation function, so that you can read foreign site, but they rarely turn out perfect and information from foreign site isn’t of ...  Read the complete review