AltaVista Strange Results

[Even Flood]

Danny Sullivan wrote:
> 
> 
> A solution can be to use one of AltaVista's mirror sites. They have
> exactly the same information, maybe only a few days old. But they
> have far less traffic, so your searches will get farther than they
> might during a busy US period.
>
Actually, that is not a good idea, judging by my results 
yesterday. I did several searches on AltaVista  at
www.altavista.telia.com
in Sweden and AltaVista in the US. The result were
a) consistent in that I got the same numbers of hits 
every time I repeated a search at the same site,
b) consistent in that I got roughly three times as many hits in 
the US version as in the European "mirror" on all the search terms I
used. 

It seem AltaVista are having problems?

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