We always strive to provide the AltaVista experience that best suits your location. For example, if you are in the UK and enter www.altavista.com into your browser address bar, we detect that you're in the UK and serve you www.altavista.co.uk. This experience is tuned for the UK audience, providing local content and allowing you to search the UK Web in English. However, you can always perform a search of the entire web by clicking the "WorldWide" button below the search box before running your search.

To override our settings and choose another country, click the link in the upper right of the home page, marked with a down arrow. See How do I change my country? (below) for more detail.

You can customize all of your AltaVista settings on the Settings page. The link to this page appears on the Tools line of the AltaVista home page.

For users whose computers accept cookies (90%+ of all users), changes that you select will be remembered for your next visit to AltaVista.

How do I change my country?

You can customize all of your AltaVista settings on the Settings page. The link to this page appears on the Tools line of the AltaVista home page.

For users whose computers accept cookies (90%+ of all users), changes that you select will be remembered for your next visit to AltaVista.

How do I select the languages I want to search in?

You can search for Web pages written in all languages or only in the languages of your choice. To select the language(s) you want to search in, click the link to the right of "RESULTS IN:" Check as many languages as you want, review your interface language setting, then hit OK.

You can customize all of your AltaVista settings on the Settings page. The link to this page appears on the Tools line of the AltaVista home page.

For users whose computers accept cookies (90%+ of all users), changes that you select will be remembered for your next visit to AltaVista.