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.

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(1996-06-10)