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. The summary is created by the search program. The robot looks for the most appropriate lines of text using the keywords as a guide.
Searches are good for nonspecific topics.
Excite is a good search service for beginners who are ready to move awayf from subject tree approach search engines like Yahoo. Excite indexes approximately 50 million web page and has approximately 100,000 directory entries. However, Internet World , did not like Excite's summaries, which are drawn from text within the page, not necessarily the introductory text. HotBot claims to reindex its approximately 54 million pages every two weeks. Exact or near exact matches are returned.