Alta Vista

(World-Wide Web)

A World-Wide Web site provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine.

As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. AltaVista is currently (June 1996) the largest Web index, with 30 million pages from 225,000 servers, and three million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 12 million times per weekday.

http://altavista.digital.com/.

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AltaVista

(AltaVista Company, Palo Alto, CA) The first search engine to index every word on a page and provide a retrieval system to extract relevant information. Developed by Digital's Research Labs in Palo Alto in 1995, the AltaVista search engine was available in more than 25 languages in a variety of versions. In 2003, AltaVista was acquired by Overture, which was acquired by Yahoo! later in the year. In 2011, the AltaVista search was redirected to Yahoo!. See Web search engines and Overture.

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References in periodicals archive

(112-92-95-110-409) and Alta Vista (103-97-92-101-393) which landed first and second, respectively.

72nd PAL Interclub / RPV-1 gets 3rd spot in Aviators

The Carmona-based squad collected 143 points at the Alta Vista Golf Club for 530 overall, 12 points ahead of Valley Golf Club.

Southwoods tops Founders

The Carmona-based squad collected 143 points at Alta Vista Golf Club for 530 overall, 12 points ahead of Valley Golf Club.

Manila S'woods rules Founders division

Partnering with Take Stock in Children, they're inviting other philanthropists to join them to provide full college tuition for 17 Alta Vista fifth graders who've participated in the school's summertime Eagle Academy.

WHY WE CARE

? A day after upstaging the perennial title rivals with a 142 at Alta Vista, Cebu Country Club groped for 131 points at Club Filipino and fell 12 points behind Luisita with a 273.

Sweeties gain 7-stroke lead in PAL Sr golf

Graveside services immediately following the funeral at Alta Vista Cemetery.

Ruth Jean Barham, formerly of Marion

Address: 199 Alta Vista Ct, Lexington, South Carolina, USA - 29073

Kay Plumbing Services Welcomes Jennifer Earle as Business Manager

Alta Vista A search engine once so popular it was referenced in a 'Streets' song, it may surprise younger people that Google was not always the king.

Dialing back to a simpler time..

WHEN I WAS Six my parents moved with their four small sons to a Washington suburb called Alta Vista, then a northern outpost of Bethesda, Maryland.

The Great Trick-or-Treat

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