More Alta Vista bafflement

[George J. Janczyn]

Another angle on the strange results coming from Alta Vista:

For a few years, I've used Alta Vista's 'hosts:' operator to search for
items at UCSD.  However, about a week ago, Alta Vista search results became
sparse and off the mark.  For example, the following search:

hosts:ucsd.edu schedule

previously turned up hundreds of items.  Now it turns up two items:  UCSD
baseball team information, and a course description.

That's doing the basic search.  When I changed my user preference to
"Advanced Search" and repeated the above host-specific search, I obtained
tons of results but none from UCSD!

I wonder if something has gone wrong as Alta Vista retools for selling top
ranking search results to advertisers.

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George J. Janczyn   Technical Services Automated Systems Manager
Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, DEPT 0175K, La Jolla, CA 92093
619-534-1282       FAX: 619-822-0349
gjanczyn at ucsd.edu  http://tpot.ucsd.edu/
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