Many search engines are coupled together with a subject directory and often provide other types of special searches such as yellow pages, e-mail, news feeds, company information, etc. Advanced search mode provides for Boolean queries. Provides access to the RealNames homepage database, Ask Jeeves question-answering service, rudimentary language translation software, and a number of other specialized search services. Good search capabilities including Boolean operators, and concept searching using plain language queries. Allied with Dell, the goal of Fast is to index all of the Web.
Results come back quickly, interface is simple and uncluttered.
Lycos now uses this search engine. Because relevance rankings depend heavily on link popularity, Google is very good at returning highly relevant results for most searches. However, it may give a lower ranking to some less obvious, but highly relevant, sources. Search is available in many foreign languages, contains an Advanced Search form, and indexes PDF and Usenet files. Also searches Usenet newsgroups, classified ads, news, etc.