A link at the end of the page leads to the next page of hits. Lycos additionally offers the selection of a limit value for the internally calculated degree of relevance. Ranking All search engines offer a relevance scale and the results are sorted by this number. The calculation is based on a statistical method such as word frequency or word spacing. The hits are sorted in the list according to relevance.
Every search service shows at least URLs and document titles.
Most services also present excerpts or automatically generated excerpts from the original document as well as additional information such as date created, size, etc. Alta Vista and Lycos are configurable for how comprehensive the result output is. Sorting is sometimes shown with colour or graphically. Excite additionally allows sorting by host, Alta Vista a setting of the terms whose matched documents have priority in the display of results. In contrast to the hosts of the online databases, direct processing of the number of hits on the search server's side isn't possible.