Keyword:
altavista
Global Monthly Searches :
32,375
Alternative Keywords to Use :
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Rank |
Keyword |
Searches |
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1 |
altavista |
32,375 |
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2 |
altavista search engine |
3,785 |
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3 |
altavista babelfish |
389 |
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4 |
altavista uk |
342 |
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5 |
altavista australia |
169 |
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6 |
altavista bablefish |
162 |
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7 |
altavista search |
111 |
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8 |
babelfish altavista |
111 |
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9 |
altavista com |
82 |
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10 |
altavista babelfish translation service |
81 |
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11 |
altavista translation |
76 |
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12 |
diferencias google yahoo altavista |
75 |
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13 |
first national bank of altavista |
72 |
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14 |
altavista babelfish translation |
64 |
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15 |
altavista image |
53 |
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16 |
submit site to altavista |
51 |
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17 |
altavista video |
45 |
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18 |
altavista canada |
43 |
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19 |
altavista babel fish |
35 |
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20 |
altavista journal |
24 |
Additional Information :
AltaVista was created by
researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research
Laboratory who were trying to provide services to make finding files on
the public network easier. Although there is some dispute about
who was responsible for the original idea, two key participants
were Louis Monier, who wrote the crawler, and Michael Burrows, who wrote
the indexer. The name AltaVista was chosen in relation to the
surroundings of their company at Palo Alto. AltaVista was publicly
launched as an internet search engine on 15 December 1995 at
altavista.digital.com.
At launch, the service had two innovations which set it ahead of the
other search engines; It used a fast, multi-threaded crawler (Scooter)
which could cover many more Web pages than were believed to exist at the
time and an efficient search running back-end on advanced hardware. As
of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha
processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB
of hard disk space, and received 13 million queries per day. This
made AltaVista the first searchable, full-text database of a large part
of the World Wide Web. The distinguishing feature of AltaVista was its
minimalistic interface compared with other search engines of the time; a
feature which was lost when it became a portal, but was regained when it
refocused its efforts on its search function.
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