Note that Boolean operators MUST be in upper case to work. Instead, functions must be chosen from the drop down menus. However, Excite does not always process a phrase search exactly as expected. It will ignore stop words within a phrase. No truncation searching is available.
All search terms look for a match regardless of upper and lower case are searched.
After running a search from the main page, a followup search box also has the language limit options. There is currently no way to search all language, and only one language can be searched at a time. No other limits are available on their regular search. Many common words and numbers will not be searched. It also does not identify which hits have more than one page per site available.