Web results are combined with information from premium material in one search, giving you access to books, magazines, databases, and newswires not available from any other search engine. There is a fee for premium material, or what Northern Light calls their Special Collection. Currently the Special Collection contains 7 million full-text documents. Web Crawler Searches full text of over 2 million Web pages. Simple searching only.
Displays results in either a short or detailed form.
The detailed format provides titles plus summaries, URLs, numerical relevancy scores and the option of viewing similar pages. Acquired by Excite, Inc. in 1996. Yahoo One of the most popular search tools on the Web. Offers an extensive directory of Web sites by category with simple searching of the sites within the directory. Over half a million sites are divided into more than 25,000 categories.