How to get the most out of AltaVista Search

Available in bookstores and orderable online: The AltaVista Search Revolution, (second edition, 1998) by Richard Seltzer and Eric and Deb Ray (Osborne/McGraw-Hill). Click here to see the press release Available in Hebrew and Japanese translations. Also available in Braille, from the National Braille Press. . "Indispensable," says Library Journal, Feb. 1, 1997, p. 102. "This complete guide to using the AltaVista web searching/indexing system will be indispensable to both librarians and patrons.... Get one copy to circulate, nail one down in the computer lab, and pass one around the reference desk." Winner of the "Distinguished Technical Communication Award", the highest award given by the Society for Technical Communication Publications.

Love that quote: Found at the Quantum Books site (http://www.quantumbooks.com/altavista.html) "Richard Seltzer by day is a mild-mannered marketing consultant at Digital Equipment and by night is an awesome Web Evangelist, providing aid and encouragement to people in web distress, giving public lectures, writing articles and publishing anything and everything here on his own personal web site."

An interview with Richard about the book is available in RealAudio at PCWorld Online http://www.pcworld.com/news/newsradio/seltzer/index.html Entitled "Query and Ye Shall Find: Tune up your search engine skills and kiss information overload goodbye", it consists of eight audio files: Introduction. Why is AltaVista revolutionary? Tips for narrowing searches fast. Tips so others can find your Web site. What are META tags? What's the ranking algorithm? Tips for searching newsgroups. AltaVista Search on my PC.

Publishing party of the decade -- list of attendees (to help them stay in touch with one another).

Favorite search engine: http://www.altavista.comOriginal AltaVista press release.

Related articles

• Original AltaVista article, "The AltaVista Revolution" published in Internet-on-a-Disk back in January 1996.
• "Flypaper" Articles: Articles by Richard Seltzer dealing with the business model of "flypaper" (creating Web pages with the purpose of being found, rather than going out with a "fly swatter" and trying to find people and information), have appeared in recent issues of his newsletter Internet-on-a-Disk and are part of his next book The Social Web.
• Flypaper: how to draw traffic to your Web pages
• From "Flypaper" to Social Web (preface to the book The Social Web)
• Let People Find You -- Putting "Flypaper" to Work (introduction to the book The Social Web)
• The Joy of Being Found: Want to Connect with Old Friends, Customers, Employer? Try using "Flypaper"
• Flypaper Dialogue -- Making Web Sites Interactive Without Interactive Software with a response from Alfred Thompson
• Making the Web Truly Global -- the implications of AltaVista Translation
• Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story (about Raging Search)
• From Cobb newsletter: Articles by Richard Seltzer which appeared in Internet Search Advantage (formerly known as Power Searching with AltaVista), a monthly newsletter published by The Cobb Group, a division of Ziff-Davis, http://www.zdjournals.com/isa
• Finding jobs and being found for jobs (July 1997)
• Flypaper: using AltaVista Search in reverse to let people find you (August 1997)
• Finding what you want even when you don't know what you want: the LiveTopics bonus (September 1997)
• Taking "snapshots" with LiveTopics: Watch out for mirages (October 1997)
• Understanding the limits of accuracy (November 1997)
• The power of the Add/Remove URL link (December 1997)
• Finding the right tool for the right job (January 1998)
• Information X-rays: Refine as a diagnostic tool (February 1998)
• Questions and Answers (March 1998)
• Keywords and translation (April 1998)
• Using the AltaVisa Translation Assistant for Web research (May 1998)
• A Pragmatic Approach to Translation (June 1998)
• The impact of search engines on the legal profession, Part 1: what to search for and how (July 1998)
• The impact of search engines on the legal profession Part 2: finding people and redefining "discovery" (August 1998)
• Advice about Advanced (September 1998)
• Protecting Trademarks and Service Marks with AltaVista Search (October 1998)

Related Chat Sessions

• November 7, 1996
• November 14, 1996
• November 21, 1996
• December 5, 1996

At Learnlots www.learnlots.com, you will also find another AltaVista-related tutorial by Richard, this one entitled "How to Find People Online."

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