Document (#13607)

Author

Blake, P.

Title

AltaVista and Notes for the web

Source

Monitor. 1996, no.179, S.6-8

Year

1996

Footnote

Briefly reviews the AltaVista and Notes search software for searching the WWW. In the case of AltaVista, Digital claims that this web crawler has been crawling the WWW at the rate of 2,5 million pages per day and already accounts for the indexing of 16 million pages and 13.000 newsgroups. Suggests that AltaVista pulls of significantly more on obscure or specialist subjects than rivals like InfoSeek and Excite. concludes with details of IBM's development of the Lotus WWW searcher designed to cope with the increasing complexity of web applications

Theme

Suchmaschinen

Object

AltaVista
Notes

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