| Why AltaVista? |
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| All
words are indexed, including "stopwords" |
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| Distinguishes
case and "special characters" |
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| Supports
Boolean operators, bracketing, and |
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world-wide coverage, with search by |
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| No
limits to length or complexity of the query |
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| Literal
text search, without "second-guessing" |
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