Became available in December 1995. It follows the Robot Exclusion Standard . Web pages, Usenet News. Indexes every word on every page. It is accessed over 20 million times per weekday.
Help is available for the simple search mode.
Advanced searching is also possible with different help screens. Results appear with both title and URL in hypertext. Results can be viewed in standard, compact or detailed form. I found there was no difference between the standard and detailed results. Became available in December 1995.