Lycos Lycos catalogues pages and displays an outline of the page content. The results are given in ranked order with relevance scores. Excite Excite provides ranked search results and displays brief extracts of text from the pages found. Relevance scores are given. Google Said to be the largest web page database with over one billion pages indexed.
Good relevance is claimed for hits displayed.
When sites are displayed brief descriptions of the content are given. You can also limit your searches to a classified section e.g. Yahoo Health. Ask Jeeves Ask Jeeves is described as a unique question-answering search engine that allows users to ask questions in plain English, then delivers the answer. For example a search for computers on Alta Vista gives over 9 million pages that match, whereas searching for antidisestablishmentariansim gives nearly 900 matches. Searching for document management will give results that include both words individually, whereas what you probably want is results for the whole phras.