Excite is a searchable index of web pages and an index of web sites by subject. It has a review service, Excite Tours, city guides, a news service, and a reference section. It can search web pages and Usenet news groups. Infoseek lets you search the web, Usenet newsgroups, email addresses, company directories, and web Frequently Asked Questions lists. It also has a review service called Infoseek Select sites.
Users can search the web for pictures and sounds as well as text documents.
Lycos has a review service and a daily news listing. It currently claims to have indexed 54 million web pages, making it the largest searchable index on the web. Search results are generally more accurate than Alta Vista, but not as comprehensive. Deja News is a searchable index of Usenet newsgroup articles. Deja News also allows you to post messages to newsgroups and read newsgroups.