Excite.com
Excite.com falls squarely in the middle of the search-engine pack. It's a perfectly adequate search engine and Web directory, but it lacks the uncanny accuracy of Google and the power of Northern Light. With a Web database of 250 million pages, it's also quite a bit smaller than many of its competitors.
The engine performed respectably on our tests, particularly on more specific queries such as China + trade relations or Federated States of Micronesia. It also did well on queries targeting specific home pages, such as L.L. Bean's site, but it tends to have less success with broad queries.
Excite.com has some useful extras, such as a handy news search and specialized searches for photos and audio/video. A search for a publicly traded company will bring up links to stock information and a company profile from Quicken.com.
Excite.com supports Boolean operators such as and, or, and not, as well as radio buttons and drop down lists on its advanced search page, but power searchers may be frustrated by limited field-searching capabilities. Though Excite.com will let you search for pages within a domain, there is no way to limit your search to a Web site or to search for keywords within the URL or for a title of a document.
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