Open Text Web Index From Waterloo, Ontario. Engine also licensed to Yahoo As of September 1st more than 782 million words of text and 14,998,271 hyperlinks have been indexed by the Open Text Web Index. The simple search merely searches the indexed pages for keywords or phrases. You may also submit your own URL for inclusion on the Open Text Web Index. The search algorithm is based on the work done at Waterloo on the Oxford English Dictionary excite's NetSearch 31 October 95 From Architext Software.
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The index contains more than 1.4 million pages, and the entire database is refreshed weekly. Classifieds Search Usenet classified advertisements from the past two weeks. Free searches are now limited to a retrieval of 100 URLs, often missing valuable pointers. All information is checked at least every month. The free service has now been expanded to include recent information that has appeared in Usenet news groups, on FTP and gopher sites, and in some popular Internet mailing lists Lycos or Wolf Spider More than a simple keyword search.