AltaVista Makes News Images Available

Search engine AltaVista ( http://www.altavista.com ) has made two announcements in regard to its multimedia search. First off, it claims that its multimedia index has grown by 73 percent. Second, they've linked the multimedia index to their news images. More than 800 news images (photos, maps, charts, etc.) are made available every day.

The direct search is at http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/simage . A search for "luke helder" found no results, though a search for +pipe +mailboxes found 13 results, all of which seemed recent. Maybe there's a lag between image generation and indexing, or maybe the name isn't getting attached to any photographs by AV's crawler.

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