(http://altavista.digital.com)
Summary of Features
| Coverage | WWW, Usenet |
| Size of index | 52 million of URLs |
| Extent of indexing | Full-text. Indexes every word in every page but does not retrieve stop words |
| Levels of searching | Simple and advanced searching |
| Implied Boolean | YES. The implied connector is OR |
| Simple Boolean | YES. Including AND, OR, NEAR, AND NOT (In the advanced search mode) |
| Proximity searching | YES. With the connector NEAR Alta Vista finds documents containing both specified words or phrases within 10 words of each other. |
| Nesting (parenthesis for complex searches) | YES |
| Field searching | YES. For example "to be or not to be" |
| Ignores stop words? | YES. Alta Vista will not search for the most common words these include "Internet" (which is indexed about 9 million times) and "Web" (indexed over 7 million times) |