AltaVista Search: The Most Powerful Guide to the Internet Gets Stronger.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1999-- Internet's First Search Freshness Guarantee Combines With New Site Design Featuring Enhanced Multimedia Search and Contextual Impulse impulse, in mechanics: see momentum. Impulse (mechanics) The integral of a force over an interval of time. For a force F , the impulse J over the interval from t0 to t1 Shopping AltaVista Company today announced that its powerful Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the search service now offers the Internet's first search freshness guarantee, a new site design, first-of-its-kind contextual impulse shopping, and enhanced multimedia search capabilities, extending the company's leadership in innovative search technology. The enhanced AltaVista search service is the cornerstone cornerstone Ceremonial building block, dated or otherwise inscribed, usually placed in an outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Often the stone is hollowed out to contain newspapers, photographs, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to of the AltaVista Internet media and commerce network the company announced today. The company's new offerings form the foundation of a premier Internet network that will add several new services throughout 1999 and culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. in the unveiling of the next-generation AltaVista Network by the end of the year. "Once again AltaVista is redefining how users search for information on the Web," said Rod Schrock, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AltaVista Company. "Our powerful search technology has always set us apart from our competitors, and the features we are announcing today establish a new benchmark for search performance. As the Web continues to evolve, AltaVista is dedicated to helping users find the relevant information they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. faster - regardless of whether they're searching for Web page information, multimedia objects or products and services to buy online." The company confirmed today its intent to deliver more than 25 distinctive new search features by the end of the year. "As other Internet companies have de-emphasized improving their Web search experience, AltaVista has grown ever more determined to make searching the Internet a more relevant, satisfying experience," said Schrock. "The new search features we will unveil throughout the year will establish a level of search excellence unprecedented in the industry." The Internet's First Freshness Guarantee AltaVista is the largest, fastest and the first Internet site to guarantee the freshness of its index. With an index exceeding 140 million Web pages and an average response time of 0.4 - 0.5 seconds, AltaVista now guarantees its entire index will be refreshed re·fresh v. re·freshed, re·fresh·ing, re·fresh·es v.tr. 1. To revive with or as if with rest, food, or drink; give new vigor or spirit to. 2. every 28 days or less. AltaVista's freshness guarantee ensures users will receive the most relevant and up-to-date results on the Internet from the industry's search leader. In addition to the freshness of the index, AltaVista continues its leadership of being the fastest in the industry to add URLs to the indexes. New Look and Feel Visitors to AltaVista will also experience a newly designed site that features the AltaVista Connections global navigation bar A set of buttons or graphic images typically in a row or column used as a central point that link you to major topic sections on a Web site. If the navigation bar is a single graphic image with multiple selections, it is known as an imagemap. See imagemap. to provide users one-click navigation across to the entire AltaVista Network. The site is now formatted for wide screen viewing to maximize the search information available to the user. Enhanced Multimedia Search - Right On the Start Page Responding to user demand for the popular AltaVista Multimedia search feature introduced earlier this year, the powerful tool has been incorporated directly into the core search function of AltaVista. Prominently displayed on the front-page search box, users can choose to target their search to image, audio and video content as well as the default option to search Web pages. Designed to provide users with the fastest and easiest access to multimedia content on the Web, AV Photo & Media Finder links to more than 17 million distinct photos, video and audio clips. AltaVista's extensive index of multimedia content includes formats such as MP3, RealAudio, WAV, AU for audio, and RealVideo, QuickTime, ASF See Windows Media formats. 1. (language) ASF - Algebraic Specification Language. 2. (body) ASF - Analytical Solutions Forum. , MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). , AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. for video - virtually every type of photo, video or audio file on the Web is searchable on AltaVista. AltaVista multimedia search uniquely offers photo and video thumbnail A miniature representation of a page or image that is used to identify a file by its contents. Clicking the thumbnail opens the file. Thumbnails are an option in file managers, such as Windows Explorer, and they are found in photo editing and graphics program to quickly browse multiple image results to allow the fastest time to access relevant multimedia information. Buy the Products You're Searching For - Right At the Results Page AltaVista now offers another industry first: the ability to buy products and services directly relevant to the information users are searching for right from the AltaVista Search results page. When users perform keyword searches on AltaVista, Web results from the vast AltaVista index will be complemented with highly relevant product offers made available by AltaVista's Shopping.com and other e-commerce partners. For example, a keyword search for "mp3 music" will return Web search results along with relevant MP3 players A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. and music merchandise available from Shopping.com. AltaVista enables the convenient purchase of these relevant products through the AltaVista QuickClick instant checkout. QuickClick allows purchase and checkout of relevant products in a single click directly from the results page, thereby delivering the industry's shortest time from information inquiry to product purchase. Search and the AltaVista Network Come Together AltaVista Search has been integrated throughout the premier AltaVista Network. This industry-leading search service is applied in three distinct fashions: as a general Web search service on the AltaVista MicroPortal, as an integrated on-site product search service for Shopping.com, and as a relevant local information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. service on AltaVista Local Portals. About AltaVista Company AltaVista Company is the premier online media and commerce network. The company integrates unique Internet technology and services to deliver relevant results faster for both individuals and Web-based businesses. By combining distinctive AltaVista brand services with `best of the Web' partnerships, the AltaVista Network creates the most satisfying Internet experience. AltaVista is building on its heritage of technology and innovation leadership, offering award-winning services including: AltaVista Search, AltaVista Local Portal Services, AltaVista MicroPortal and AltaVista's Shopping.com. For more information, visit AltaVista at http://www.altavista.com. AltaVista and Zip2 are Registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Shopping.com and Homebase are trademarks of AltaVista Company or its affiliates. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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