(http://www.excite.com)
Summary of Features
| Coverage | WWW, Usenet, current news, Excite Web Guide, 140,000 Web site reviews |
| Size of index | Over 55 million of URLs |
| Extent of indexing | Indexes every word in every pages with the exception of stop words |
| Levels of searching | Simple search and "Power Search" |
| Implied Boolean | YES. Both AND and OR are used in a "fuzzy" manner.. The most relevant pages will be found using the implied connector AND. The least relevant pages will located using the implied connector OR |
| Simple Boolean | YES. Accepts AND, OR, and AND NOT. These Boolean connectors must be capitalized. |
| Proximity searching | NO |
| Nesting (parenthesis for complex searches) | YES |
| Wildcards & truncation | NO. However the plural/singular truncation exists and is automatic. |
| Capitalization recognition | YES, for capitalized proper names only |
| Ignores stop words? | YES |
| Relevance ranking | Results are displayed with the document title, a relevance rank in percent, the page address (URL) and a summary of the document. A "More like this" hyperlink is also provided. |
| Display options | YES |