1995July, 4th AltaVista Begins First Major Crawl - After some trial runs in the previous month, AltaVista began its first major crawl on this day. Scooter, its sophisticated spider, crawled nearly 6 million pages per day and was known as the fastest web robot at the time. Its indexer named Vista was equally impressive with being able to index 1GB of text per hour. Believe it or not, that was actually a lot of data back in '95. This Day in SEO
