Articles of category "Submission to Search Engines"

In addition to the major search engines, there are hundreds of smaller search engines and indexes in the web. Alta Vista is one of smaller search engines everyone can use, when surfing or searching information in the Internet. Alta Vista opened in December 1995 and for several years was the "Google" of its day in terms of providing relevant results and having a loyal group of users that loved the service. Sadly, an attempt to turn Alta Vista into a portal site in 1998 saw the company lose the track of the importance of search. Over time, the relevancy dropped, as did the freshness of Alta Vista's listings and the crawler's coverage of the web. Today, Alta Vista is once again focused on searching. Results, coming from Yahoo and tabs above the search box, let users go beyond the web search to find images, MP3/Audio, Video, human category listings and news results.