altavista.com

This one's a bit techy - and partly adapted from an essay of mine. But I suppose it might interest somebody! A few years back, around the time of the 'internet boom,' it seemed that there were two clear leaders in the searching arena. Yahoo was the choice of the masses, while anybody wanting to do some serious searching was pointed towards the mighty AltaVista. Yet between 2000 and 2002, the average number of users per month plummeted from 16 million to just 6 million. (Stats from a BBC News Online article). Now Google seems to be the first choice for all. The question is how does AltaVista ... more

Altavista.com is not a bad little search engine at all, the site itself is very uncluttered with very few images and mostly just related text links, so the pages load quickly enough. You can either search using the big search box at the top of the screen, or you can look through the various categories listed below it. The main search box gives you a few options, including whether to switch the family filter on or off and you can choose the language. You can also customize how your search results are displayed, to include various information such as description, web page size and URL, date last ... more

Altavista is managed by 'Altavista The Search Company', based in the US. For many years this search engine has been the number one throughout the world. It has evolved from a simple meta-engine to a portal of directories, databases and banks of graphics and the like. Altavista could be described as a portal too, providing news and that sort of thing. I may sound like I love altavista, but I'm trying to give it a good hearing first. I personally don't get on with altavista at all. It used to be my favorite, as did it with many millions of people. I have sinced moved on to Google. Altavista has ... more

I, like many, had become addicted to GOOGLE. A couple of weeks ago I decided to return to a few of the Search Engines that I had commonly used prior to this. I was very impressed with Altavista. It is very simple and uncluttered, yet managed do its job extremely well. ~~Download Speed~~ This was one aspect of the site that really impressed me. It typically took less than 10 seconds, depending of course on the amount of hits. ~~Advanced Search Features~~ Altavista bore well in this part of its analysis. It is possible to completely customise your search, with options such as; -Description -Web ... more

“You don’t need to tell the people that it is good or bad You just need to tell the people what is going right and what is going wrong” We have been talking lot of the Indian scenario and blaming some of the dotcoms for their poor performance have we looked at some of the major international players like boo.com, amazon.com who are facing a big financial crunch irrespective of giving a fantastic service. Looking at Amazon, every one knows that it is the best shopping sites for Books and nothing can beat its services, when first time I heard that a site like amazon is having a ... more