Altavista.com is the official website of AltaVista, an internet search engine created by the company of the same name. The function works like most other search functions, where you simply input what you are trying to find and press “search.” The site’s three search functions are for general things, images, and news. You can search specifically in the U.S., or all over the world, and you can search in all languages, or just English and Spanish. The site also features a link to the Babel Fish translator. You can download an AltaVista toolbar for your internet browser, check the yellow pages, check the white pages, use maps, download an AltaVista search engine for your own site, and use a simple conversion tool.

Altavista.com is a useful alternative to more popular search engines, like Google.com and Yahoo.com. The site’s versatility for languages and the websites of other countries is particularly useful, if you are looking to find something in another language from another nation that you cannot normally access from an American search engine. The site’s audience is primarily male and educated, and visitors to the site tend to also go to reference websites, celebrity and Hollywood news and information websites, and computer software websites.