I also bought AltaVista for my PC. It works adequately. I don't think Inktome is offered for individual sale--so in that arena, at least, AltaVista wins. YMMV.
MMB
10:06 PM 5/31/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I heard on TV a couple of days ago that a woman has proof that she is
>126 years old. She was from South America, possibly Brazil. Sorry I
>can't tell you any more - I didn't see the full story. Maybe someone else
>saw the whole feature (?)
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>BTW HotBot is a much more powerful search engine than Alta Vista.
>
>Tony B. Csoka
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>On Sat,31 May 1997, Max More wrote:
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>> For something I'm writing, I'd like to be sure that I have the latest on
>> the age of the oldest person (according to validated records). I don't have
>> a current Guiness Book of Records and, to my surprise, I couldn't find it
>> with a quick AltaVista search.
>>
>> As far as I know, the current record is 121 years and some months. Can
>> anyone tell me if this has been beaten?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Max
>>
>> "Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy man has no time to form."
>> Andre Maurois, The Art of Living
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>>
>> Max More, Ph.D.
>> more@extropy.org
>> http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore
>> Author: The Augmented Animal (Forthcoming: HardWired, 1998)
>> President, Extropy Institute, Editor, Extropy
>> exi-info@extropy.org, http://www.extropy.org
>> (310) 398-0375
>> EXTRO 3 CONFERENCE on the future: http://www.extropy.org/extro3.htm
>>
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