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31 August 2001 07:02 PM
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AltaVista AU

AltaVista Australia retains many of the advanced search capabilities of its US parent. The Text Only search is there, and the many query options make it easy to come up with excellent results on very specific searches. Even the Babelfish translation service is included.

But while the US AltaVista offers special pages for services like comparison shopping, the Australian site concentrates more on personalisation features such as MySearch, which lets the user save favourite search queries and results.

AltaVista Australia also offers separate pages designed to facilitate searches for a variety of media formats, including images, audio/MP3s, and video clips.

In our local search tests, AltaVista did well, generating a large number of results for both simple and complex queries.

AltaVista AU

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    Matilda Keith -- 04/01/06 (in reply to #120126443)

    The Correct address for Matilda is
    http://www.matildasearch.com
    Is theee any chance you coulds replace your content with a simple link?
    Keith

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