Results are rank-ordered according to the number of words retrieved in the query.
Allows searches to be constrained to particular subsets of information, such as web pages or Usenet news articles. Deja News Searches newsgroups on the Internet. Allows for precision searching, using boolean operators, keyword symbols and context operators, and query filtering. Excite Offers concept search capabilities by matching words with ideas that are closely related to them. Results are displayed 10 at a time, in decreasing order of confidence.