As Expected, Changes at AltaVista
On December 15, 1995 AltaVista officially launched. Today, the AltaVista search platform and its many advanced features are no longer available online. However, the AV site remains live and is now powered by the Yahoo database and platform. These changes was expected. Last week, Search Engine Showdown reported that AlltheWeb (now owned by Yahoo) had also moved to the Yahoo database and platform. Other changes?
One of AV's unique advanced features, the proximity operator NEAR, is no longer available.
Other features no longer available from AV include language limiting, nested searching, case sensitive searching, and truncation.
Advanced Syntax No Longer Available
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The advanced syntax that remains online is posted on this page. BabelFish (AV's translation tool) and AV's multimedia databases remain online. We can only hope that some of AV's advanced search features will become part of the Yahoo platform."
posted by Jen @ 8:22 AM
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