An important weakness is that there is no way to search for phrases. Going to Galaxy's Advanced Search will give you more options. You can choose to search the full-text of directory web pages, just the titles, just the links within the web pages, or all of these. There are three result output formats - short, medium and long. Galaxy's long format is amazingly informative.
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