AltaVista Announces Larger Multimedia
Databases
June 18, 2003: AltaVista announces larger image, audio, and video
databases. Their press release trumpets "AltaVista's Multimedia Index
Becomes World's Largest" and claims "540 million comprehensive, high-quality
image files and approximately 11 million video and audio files" and "125
million more files than the next highest competitor." However, there is no
good way to measure the actual size, and depending on the search term and
the way the image search is done, you may still find more results at other
engines. On the AltaVista image search, they added a "Size" limit, with
small, medium, large, and a variety of standard wallpaper dimensions.
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