Altavista vs. Altavista

[Rob Cameron]

If you check closely, you'll see that altavista.com forwards its
search queries to altavista.digital.com.

Essentially, the folks at altavista.com are enjoying a free ride
and a free opportunity to sell advertising space off the fine
work by the people at DEC who created and maintain the AltaVista
search engine.

Robert D. Cameron, Associate Professor           cameron at cs.sfu.ca
School of Computing Science                      FAX: (604) 291-3045
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada  V5A 1S6

Internet Electronic Library Project at SFU       
http://elib.cs.sfu.ca/