AltaVista brings the Internet to your fingertips, helping you find the exact piece of information you're looking for -- time after time. You'll find AltaVista's power, scope, speed, and ease of use unmatched and unprecedented, which is why AltaVista is the search engine of choice for millions of Internet users.
AltaVista's Scope
Digital Equipment Corporation developed AltaVista in 1995 in its Palo Alto research labs to do the unthinkable -- index the whole Internet. Using AltaVista, you can find any word in any document published on the World Wide Web or in Usenet discussion groups, which makes AltaVista an invaluable tool for helping you find information. Want to find all pages on the Web that contain information about Mars? AltaVista is the place. Need to know which newsgroups have mentioned your company by name in the last three days? AltaVista will show you.
AltaVista's Speed
You can search through AltaVista's entire Web index -- approximately 200 Gigabytes of data -- in less than a second! With the help of sophisticated software, robust Internet connections, and state-of-the-art Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha technology, your AltaVista search can take less time than it takes you to find a file on your personal computer (or anything on your desk!).
AltaVista's Ease of Use
Using AltaVista is a cinch! Just type a question or a few words, click Submit, and AltaVista promptly returns your results. AltaVista also sorts the results so the best matches appear the top of the list. Even using Simple Search, you get the full power and scope that AltaVista offers. (Here at AltaVista, we all use Simple Search for most of our searches!) Or, for you power users, you canalso use Advanced Search and search by date or construct carefully detailedsearches that include (or exclude!) anycombination of words or phrases.
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