Excite

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Excite claims to have more than 11.5 million web pages indexed. This is a little more than half as many as Alta Vista, but still one of the larger repositories of web pages on the net. Excite distinguishes itself from the other engines by having reviews of over 50,000 websites. Magellan comes up second with about 30,000 reviews. You can also search 10,000 newsgroups with Excite out of a total of about 20,000. I believe Alta Vista and Deja News both cover more newsgroups and articles. Excite uses a spider to find information about websites. One of the best features of Excite is its excellent relevancy rankings which is one of the finest I've seen. Displays of results are also clear and very readable, but lacking the website's URL. Excite also has an advanced search capability. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions are available. I would not characterize the Advanced Query as very advanced, nor particularly effective. Excite has a Travel Directory that contains information on over 2,100 cities. You can submit a URL to Excite. Excite seems to update its database fairly frequently and is more current than most robot based search engines. If you are interested, check out their company Website

(Last updated 10/11/02)