Altavista vs. Altavista

[Isabel Danforth]

The proper URL for altavista  http://altavista.digital.com
I have seen other places make the same assumption that you did.

Isabel


At 12:10 PM 1/9/98 -0800, N. TOMAIUOLO, INSTRUCTION LIBRARIAN, CCSU wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>Please bear with the following.  When I first began searching AltaVista, I 
>remember the location box on my browser connecting to www.altavista.com
>Back then (a couple of years ago now), I was teaching students to use
AltaVista 
>and sending them to www.altavista.com; a few months after that I met some 
>salespeople from Digital at a meeting and they explained why AltaVista was 
>superior, etc.
>
>My personal home page has a link to www.altavista.com and when I go there I 
>receive excellent search results.  I noticed, however, that a bold
disclaimer 
>appears at www.altavista.com that reads:
>AltaVista Technology Inc. is not affiliated with Digital Equipment
Corporation, 
>AltaVista Internet Search Software Inc. or the AltaVista Internet Search 
>Service.  The AltaVista Internet Search Service may be found at 
>www.digital.altavista.com
>
>I must be out to lunch, but the screens look basically the same, both are
called 
>AltaVista, and yet I encounter this conundrum.  To illustrate my point why
don't 
>we consider this: An airplane engine has Pratt & Whitney stamped on it.  It 
>works fine, but the fine print says Pratt & Whitney is not Affiliated with 
>United Technologies, Pratt& Whitney Aircraft or etc. etc.  Could a
colleague or 
>a lurker from the engines themselves unravel this for me?
>
>Thank you
>Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, MLS
>Bibliographic Instruction Librarian
>Central Connecticut State University Library
>Reference Department
>New Britain, CT  06050
>
>http://library.ccsu.ctstateu.edu/~bibman
>email=  tomaiuolon at ccsu.ctstateu.edu
>phone=  (860) 832-2068
>fax=    (860) 832-3409
>
>
>
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