Which Search Engine Should I Use? . . .		There are about a half-dozen top search engines available on the Web, and they all do pretty much the same thing--sweeping the Web at regular intervals (usually daily) and building large indexes of the words and phrases they compile from hundreds of thousands of Web sites they visit. You can search their indexes by keywords or phrases to generate "hits"--a list of Web sites matching only the keywords you've entered . . .
	AltaVista		The question of which search engine to use is partly a matter of your own personal preference. There are a number of search engines on the Web, such as Lycos, at 0001, InfoSeek, at 6887, or Excite!, but our favorite is AltaVista at 8025 . . . Developed at Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), we've found AltaVista to be the most accurate, efficient and powerful search engine on the Web . . .
	The More Keywords You Enter, The More Precise Your Search Will Be . . .		Like other search engines, AltaVista lets you search its vast index of Web sites by entering one or more keywords. The more keywords you enter, the more you'll narrow down the number of sites to just the ones you're most interested in . . .
	Entering Keywords on WebTV . . .		If you don't have the optional WebTV keyboard, you must enter keywords by typing them out, on-screen, using your WebTV remote and WebTV's on-screen keyboard . . .
	Press the Key, Then Use the Arrow Keys to Type . . .		To bring up the WebTV on-screen keyboard, press the button on your WebTV remote. Use your WebTV remote's UP, DOWN, and LEFT/RIGHT arrow keys to highlight the letter of the word you're "typing," then press the large center key to enter the letter you're typing . . .
	Typing Out a Word or Two is Easy . . .		While this might seem a little clumsy at first, it's actually not that much work for keyword searching, since most of your searches will involve typing of no more than one or two keywords anyway . . .
	Single-Keyword Searching		If you search AltaVista by using a single keyword, it's likely you'll receive far more Web site links which match that keyword than sites you're actually interested in. If you enter a single keyword like baseball, for example, you'll get a list of nearly 100,000 Web sites, each of which contain the word "baseball." You'll find that most of these sites would probably not contain what you're looking for, because they refer to sites that sell "baseball" caps, or sites about little league "baseball," for example . . .