Altavista

 The AltaVista search service helps you find documents on the World Wide Web. Here's how it works. You tell the search service what you're looking for by typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in a search box. The search service responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in their index relating to those topics. The most relevant content will appear at the top of your results.

 When searching, think of a word as a combination of letters and numbers. The research service needs to know how to separate words and numbers to find exactly what you want on the Internet. You can separate words using white space and tabs.

 You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box. You can also create phrases using punctuation or special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes, or dots.

Example: Try searching for 1-800-999-9999 instead of 1 800 999 9999. The dashes link the numbers together as a phrase

 

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