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Alta Vista used to be a household name, but has really declined over the years because of Google.
I’m not sure how effective it is anymore.
It really comes down to how many “web crawlers” they deploy everyday to update the content. I know Google and Yahoo are fairly close, and MSN trails, but not by far.
I don’t know about Alta Vista politics, but have you tried icerocket.com? It seems comparable to Google.