Need a Personal Web Research Assistant?

The World Wide Web is a valuable resource for conducting research on any subject, but with an estimated 300 million Web pages, trying to locate the information you need most can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Recognizing the scope of this daunting task, one of the most powerful public search engines on the Web, AltaVista, has further enhanced the search experience with a personalized Web research assistant, AltaVista Discovery.

This unique search utility connects users to the Web's largest information index (140 million pages) through the award-winning AltaVista Search Service and provides an assortment of additional features including: 

* Highlighting - Keywords from a search query are highlighted in the retrieved documents for easy viewing.
* Similar pages - This feature finds other Web pages on the same topic as the current page being viewed.
* Summarizing - The Internet's version of Cliff Notes, this feature instantly summarizes a Web page into one easily understood paragraph.

The search program also enables users to search all of the documents stored on their computer including e-mail. Simply enter a keyword into Discovery and voila! - within seconds, it will present a list of links to all of the available documents that contain that word.

AltaVista Discovery can be easily downloaded for free from the AltaVista Web site at http://altavista.digital.com/.

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