Webcrawler -a primitive search engine that appears to give relevance to simply the number of occurrences of a string in a document without regard to placement in the document. This means large pages consistently are at the top of results returned from Webcrawler. Webcrawler ignores META tags and timeliness is not a consideration. Machine-calculated samples of text are returned as summaries. Infoseek -This search engine appears to give extra weight to META tags, but not to titles or other heirarchies of text.
Key words appearing near the beginning of a file have high relevance values.
This works to the advantage of straight text files since HTML files must begin with and other strings that do not relate to the content. Simple repetition of keywords in the text or META tags seems to work miracles in getting sites to the top of relevance. Timeliness is a weak factor at most. META tags are returned as summaries. Then it gives priority to keywords which must be entered when submitting a site to Magellan.