A Real Name address link is displayed above other hits and will link to a single match or short list of possible matches. Ask Jeeves provides information from the answer service, relevant categories of Web sites as classified with Open Directory may appear, and the numbered listings from their Web crawler provide the bulk of the results. Advanced searching allows limiting your search by date, language, Boolean searching and proximity searches. Both simple and advanced searches let you limit to title or URL or even specific domain or Web site. Language capabilities include limiting Web searches to 25 listed languages including the recent addition of Japanese, Chinese and Korean language searching.
Machine translation is available between English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German and Spanish.
In simple searching the default word is or between words. Do phrase searching by enclosing in quotation marks or in many cases Alta Vista has made phrase searching automatic. Lower case will search both upper and lower case. The hit display shows title, URL, first two lines, date modified, size in bytes, and language. Only one page per Web site appears in the top results.