The AltaVista Search Revolution: How to Find Anything on the Internet

by Deborah S. Ray, Richard Seltzer, Eric J. Ray

This book explains how to use the AltaVista service. AltaVista is an Internet search tool that captures the full and complete text of over 2. 5 million web pages per day,without exercising any filters that might eliminate important content. AltaVista allows users to conduct comprehensive file searches at speed of up to 100 times faster than other search engines. The book explains how to use this groundbreaking tool and demonstrates many of the applications that already have drawn millions of users to AltaVista.

274 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1996

Reviews

[Richard Seltzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote this book when I worked for Digital Equipment (then the second largest computer company in the world) as their "Internet Evangelist."
This was the first consumer book about search engines, giving details about the development and use of AltaVista, the forerunner of Google.
Winner of the "Distinguished Technical Communication Award," the highest award given by the Society for Technical Communication Publications.
2 editions, Hebrew and Japanese translations. Braille version published by National Braille Press
"This complete guide to using the AltaVista web searching/indexing system will be indispensable to both librarians and patrons.... Get one copy to circulate, nail one down in the computer lab, and pass one around the reference desk." -- Library Journal
Now out of print. The complete text of the book can be read at my website at
http://www.seltzerbooks.com/alta.html