ALTA VISTA
\ˈɔːltə vˈɪstə], \ˈɔːltə vˈɪstə], \ˈɔː_l_t_ə v_ˈɪ_s_t_ə]\
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A World-Wide Web site provided by Digitalwhich features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine.As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. AltaVista iscurrently (June 1996) the largest Web index, with 30 millionpages from 225,000 servers, and three million articles from14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 12 milliontimes per weekday. (http://altavista.digital.com/).
By Denis Howe
Word of the day
dust storm
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand a windstorm that lifts up clouds dust or sand; "it was the kind of duster not experienced in years"