Publisher's Synopsis
This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the AltaVista search engine. AltaVista is an Internet-based search service from Digital that provides access to the largest Web index: 31 million pages found on 628,000 servers (1,158,000 hostnames), and four million articles from 14,000 Usenet newsgroups.;Using Digital technologies, pages on the Web are searched, sorted by occurrence of key words, indexes and stored on Digital's server, so that when users enter a word - a term, name, concept, product - AltaVista queries its indexes and reports back everywhere the word or term looked for can be found at that moment.;AltaVista is accessed 31 million times per weekday, and provides the searching power behind many of the leading search services, including Yahoo, CNET's Search.com, 100 Hot Websites, LookSmart, LawCrawler, PeekABoo, TechWeb and others.;Eric and Deborah Ray are co-authors of "Dummies 101: HTML", "Approach 97 for Windows for Dummies" and "Netscape Composer for Dummies".
