Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Alta Vista
     
         A {World-Wide Web} site provided by {Digital}
        which features a very fast Web and {Usenet} {search engine}.
     
        As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size.  AltaVista is
        currently (June 1996) the largest Web index, with 30 million
        pages from 225,000 servers, and three million articles from
        14,000 {Usenet} news groups.  It is accessed over 12 million
        times per weekday.
     
        {Home (http://www.altavista.digital.com/)}.
     
        (1996-06-10)