We made the site public on the 15th of December 1995. Within three weeks of launch, we were handling over two million HTTP requests per day. Users can perform simple string searches or opt for the advanced search with boolean operators and sorting of hits. Either Web sites or UseNet articles can be searched. Fill in the Ranking option , especially with one term searches.
Punctuation is ignored by the search engine.
More about how Alta Vista Works. UC Berkeley's Tutorial CUSI Search Page Configurable Unified Search Interfaces are pages that offer many search forms, which connect to numerous Web search engines in the default mode. To change defaults or read about how various engines operate, use the direct links to the nearly 50 engines on this page. Super Searcher has a form entry Search page that links to the next three search engines below with no explanation of how they work. Robots scan the Web everyday for new URLs.