It is accessed over 31 million times per weekday. Content AltaVista is mostly a full-text index. Rather than index words, it indexes word patterns. That means things like Hal9000 will get in. Capital letters only matter if they are entered as capitals by the user.
Accents are similar.
Interse will match Interse and Inters , while Inters will only match Inters . There is no thesaurus, so someone entering color won't find colour. Comments are not indexed. Content Yahoo does not automatically visit web pages. Its catalog is created mostly from submissions.