Displays subject path horizontally in a hierarchical format. Draws on Encyclopedia Britannica s extensive publishing experience and comprehensive information base. Although relatively small, provides a full, high quality description of its subjects. It has especially good coverage in science, arts, history and geography. Offers keyword searches for literal or concept queries, but does better with concept searches.
Concept search is the default.
Supports automatic stemming and sorting by site. Lists Popular Sites, some of which appear in its subject listing, called channels. Its channel sites are approved by editors and sometimes have reviews. Includes current news related items with the search results. Excite runs Webcrawler, as its independent multi-engine search tool.