It is not nearly as comprehensive as Alta Vista. Northern Light offers an index to WWW resources and to full-text databases of 1,800 journal articles. The full-text databases are available on a per article basis. Access to the WWW resource index is free. NlightN allows users to purchase only the information they need.
Searches are more comprehensive, but take longer to complete.
In addition to WWW resources, it indexes other services such as software archives, telephone and email address directories, reference books, WAIS servers, etc. All links lead directly to a search form or to a page containing a list of related searchable databases. MetaSearch SavvySearch Index Multilingual interfaces available. All told, Excite offers the fullest range of of search services of all Web sites. It is not nearly as comprehensive as Alta Vista and its search results are not very descriptive.