AltaVista Expands Multimedia Catalogs

Posted on June 18, 2003

Search engines keep getting bigger as the Internet expands. They are indexing more files and more images and audio and video files. AltaVista has expanded its multimedia index catalogs. The catalogs now include over 540 million image files and approximately 11 million video and audio files, including popular formats such as MP3 and MPEG. Included in the index are hundreds of millions of files published in countries around the world.

Additionally, AltaVista added a new refinement feature to its image index that enables consumers to customize searches by dimension.



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