It is huge with indexing to over 21 million web pages and more than 8 billion worlds. This includes more than 13,000 Usenet newsgroups. Alta Vista's relevance ranking is clearly not the most effective of the seven engines tested. Education Search Engine Claimed to be an excellent search engine. Excite Search via keyword or concept web documents or Usenet groups.
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Netscape chose it as it Net Directory search engine. It's like search an index cmbined with a thesaurus. Offers a browsable, searchable directory of more than 50,000 reviewed Web sites, a Usenet search of more than a million articles - 10,000 newsgroups. Search the largest full-text database of web pages. InfoSearch Claims to be the most comprehensive Directory on the Net with search engine access to people, email, yellow pages, blue pages, toll-free numbers, businesses.