A popular search engine with the largest database on the web, indexing more than 140 million pages Its main URL is http: //www altavista com/ Until 1998, this search engine provided the search facility for Yahoo Altavista indexes all the words in a web page, and new pages are normally added to the database fairly quickly, within a couple of working days 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 Some problems with spamming have been noticed The use of keyword meta tags is penalised Altavista places various alternative options before its search results, including suggested questions (using the Ask Jeeves service), RealNames Paid entries are beginning to appear at the start of the search results
This is a popular search engine with one of the largest databases on the web, indexing more than 350 million pages Its main URL is http: //www altavista com Until 1998, this search engine provided the search facility for Yahoo Altavista indexes all the words in a web page, and new pages are normally added to the database fairly quickly
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
A search engine and service which indexes World Wide Web sites as well as newsgroup postings Web sites are indexed based on the information placed inside a "meta tag" which AltaVista's spider reads and updates it's index with The aim of this service is to index the entire Internet
A popular search engine with the largest database on the web, indexing more than 140 million pages Its main URL is http: //www altavista com Until 1998, this search engine provided the search facility for Yahoo Altavista indexes all the words in a web page, and new pages are normally added to the database fairly quickly, within a couple of working days 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 Some problems with spamming have been noticed The use of keyword meta tags is penalized Altavista places various alternative options before its search results, including suggested questions (using the Ask Jeeves service), RealNames Paid entries are beginning to appear at the start of the search results