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31 August 2001 07:02 PM
Tags: search, query, result, site

Excite Australia AU

Like Excite.com, Excite Australia is a middle-of-the-range search engine, providing some good results and search options, as well as a category directory.

The engine performed well in our tests, particularly on more specific queries such as "What does WAP stand for?". It also did well on queries targeting specific home pages, such as the official Buffy the Vampire Slayer site, and it tends to have success with broad queries. Unfortunately, like many other search engines, duplicate links were very common. We did, however, rarely encounter an expired link.

Excite's advanced search supports Boolean operators, though this information is not intuitively located. Advanced search information and information on many other topics can be found in the Search Tips. The information in the search tips addresses almost every aspect of the search and results--in the form of frequently asked questions with examples--and also covers things like the meaning of browser errors.

Although Excite is an adequate search engine, the fact that there is no way to see how many pages of results there are--or the number of results in total--is a big disappointment.

Excite Australia AU

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Talkback 1 comments

    Matilda Keith -- 04/01/06 (in reply to #120126443)

    The Correct address for Matilda is
    http://www.matildasearch.com
    Is theee any chance you coulds replace your content with a simple link?
    Keith

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