I using times ago altavista search and satifected, but 1 friend tell me for I use copernic and i discover he is 1 of more complete searchs on the net. More precision in form of search. Copernic is great bronswer http://www.copernic.com have 2 free versions Copernic Desktop Search and Copernic Agent Basic.

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Altavista is nice and they have a unique search algorith I believe. You can see the matching results in Google and Yahoo but never with Altavista. And as per my personal feeling, Altavista gives more properly oriented results, not merely the pages with the keywords on it.

One reason for this may be that they have a large human workforce. Even Yahoo search results were very good as they primerily used human workforce for content filtering.

One more thing about Altavista is it's translation engine "BabelFish". Google translation is far behind this. You can check for yourself. And also Altavista's BabelFish has huge number of language support which google lacks. Again when you translate a page on BabelFish and click any links on the translated page, it automatically translates the target page which is a headache in Google's translator.

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