Alta Vista excels in searching for specific names, quotations or phrases. Alta Vista now has a AV Family Filter and AV Animal Photo. It contains a search engine, reviews to selected sites, a subject directory, city information, current news, and other info. Excite's robot examines popular sites to find links. Selection criterion is popularity.
Users can also suggest a URL to the search engine.
The database has 50 million pages indexed and sixty thousand pages reviewed. It searches for concepts instead of keywords and themes in a page. Excite does an excellent job of helping the user after the search results appear. Besides its suggestions for further narrowing the search, if you find a page that appeals to you, clicking on a link automatically finds more pages that are similar to it. The entry consists of a title, a summary and the percentage of relevance the cite has to the search.