Infoseek

Provider: Infoseek Corporation
Browsable index: No
Search capabilities: Yes
Item submission method: Robot, also takes human submissions
Editorial function: No
Annotated: Yes, from the page itself
Notable feature: Size of index, speed of retrieval
FAQ: Yes, for the product, on the home page under "about Ultra." Yes, for the search engine, on the home page under "help."

Infoseek's Ultra is in beta testing at this time. It claims to index full text of over 50 million pages. It supports Boolean AND/OR/NOT and phrase searching, as well as field searching in 4 categories (link, site, url, and title). Items are returned in order of relevance, which is provided on a percentage basis. There is a link from Ultra to the Infoseek Guide, Infoseek's browsable Internet directory.


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