Also arranges sites into broad subject categories. Excite Offers searching by terms or by subject categories of site. Good for broad searches. Uses term relevency to rank results. Google Places results in an order based on the number of highly ranked Web pages that link to the sites, a kind of citation ranking.
Searches return more popular and well-known sites.
Excellent when looking for a specific site. Uses term relevency to rank results. Hot Bot Searches can be limited by date, language, and inclusion of images, video, MP3 and Javascript. Uses term relevency to rank results. Also features a directory for searching by subject categories.