[WEB4LIB] Re: New Alta Vista

Tara Calishain calumet at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 26 12:05:45 EDT 1999


> > "If you can't find it, it probably doesn't exist." - from
> > http://doc.altavista.com/help/search/whats_new.shtml
> >
> > So according to AV, only 134 documents likely exist with "Mercutio" in 
> them,
> > while 76,080 do with "Pikachu."
>
>I just tried these same searches, and got 4160 for "Mercutio" and 58610
>for "Pikachu" . . .

Remember, AV is case-sensitive. Mercutio = 4160 results.
MERCUTIO = 134. MERcutIO = 0.

At least over in this corner of the universe.

Tara
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