Why I Still Use Altavista Search Engine
Altavista is my favourite tool for checking links and here’s why:
1. It shows more results then any other link checking tool (not including Google webmaster tools, but you can’t check competitors with that) – You can see a maximum of 1,000 separate domains linking to a URL or domain.
2. It only ever shows 2 results from one domain so the results you get don’t get swamped with a couple of site wide links.
3. If your IP address is based in the UK the results show the links with the most juice on Yahoo UK at the top so you can find out which links are helping you most on Yahoo. From the testing that I have done I have seen that generally Yahoo rates the same UK sites Google does – the links that rank high on Altavista’s link command will be from sites with good PageRank.
So there you have it, if you like checking on who’s linking to your site or blog go to Altavista.com and give it a shot.
You can check how many links a page has by searching for link: and then the page URL and you can check how many links a domain has by typing in linkdomain: and then the domain you want to check without the www. Just like on Yahoo site explorer but better.
Posted in Link Building News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
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June 19th, 2009 14 Comments
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June 19th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
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June 21st, 2009 at 4:09 am
I still use Alta Vista for research based searches. I don’t get the ads like on Google and Yahoo as much. Good clean results are what I mine for and Alta Vista has more of them. Deeper Web (Google) is better in some instances, but I still keep AV around and click it to get even deeper in less popular search terms.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:17 pm
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June 22nd, 2009 at 7:15 am
Alta Vista is really good for that functionality alone. although by default my main search engine is of course google but sometimes I do find better results on Alta Vista for specific queries
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
When I first started using the Web, Alta Vista was my preferred Search Engine but I had almost forgotten it existed thanks to the Google “domination”. I have just checked it out and will definitely use it again.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:58 am
he bing dot com is good now..try it
June 25th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Thanks for this dave. tried it now, and must say, i’m impressed. good stuff. will definitely be using it more in future.
June 27th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Yes altavista returns some good results for specific queries and we cannot outright ignore it.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Nice piece of information, realy useful……
Thanks buddy!
June 30th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
That’s right.. Altavista is a topranking search engine.. I used it frequenetly because it display proper result by giving any keywords…
June 30th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
But i have question regarding that,as i am from india,here AV is not too much popular.
August 15th, 2009 at 5:45 am
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November 4th, 2009 at 12:03 am
I’ve been using Altavista since when it was the top SE back in 95. Of course, I worked for D.E.C then who owned it, so I was biased
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Altavista? Well brings back memories.