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Magellan is a service from the McKinley Group, Sausalito, Ca. This is an online guide including a directory of sites both rated and unrated, with some editorial content and a search engine. Web sites, gopher servers, ftp and telnet sites can be indexed on Magellan. Magellan is available in French and German.

Submitting

Magellan has a submission page with a box for you to add your URL. Submissions are handled by Excite, Magellan's parent search engine.

Delete Method

See Excite.

Relevance

Magellan uses a system to rank sites in a hit list comprised of the sites returned after a search is executed. These factors are considered when ordering a hit list (as taken from Magellan's FAQ):

How many of the words appear?
Checks to see how many of the words you entered are in the records.
Records containing all your words will appear before records containing only some of them.
Are any of those words in the title?
Checks to see if the words appear in the title of the site.
Records whose titles contain some of the words you entered will appear ahead of documents that do not have those words in the title.
Are any of those words in the keywords or description?
Checks to see if the words appear in the keywords or in the Magellan review.
Records whose description or keywords contain some of the words you entered will appear ahead of documents that do not have those words in the description or keywords.
Are any of those words in the URL?
Checks to see if the words appear in the URL.
Records whose URL contain some of the words you entered will appear ahead of documents that do not have those words in the URL.
How Many Times do Those Words Appear?
Checks the frequency of the words in the document.
The more times your word or words appeared in the document, the closer to the top of the hit list your document will appear.

These rules are useful if you would like your site to be returned earlier in a hit list.

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