Yes; AND, AND NOT, OR must be used in capital letters
Yes
No
Yes; Place double quotes around phrases
No
No
Excite AND Example: political AND cartoons finds everything with BOTH words "political" AND "cartoons"
Excite OR Example: political OR cartoons finds everything with EITHER of the words "political" OR "cartoons"
Excite NOT Example: political AND NOT cartoons finds everything with the word "political" AND NOT the word "cartoons"
Excite Plus Sign "+" (Boolean AND) Example: +Bart Simpson
finds files with "Bart" in them, weighting those with "Simpson" more heavily
Excite Minus Sign "-" (Boolean NOT) Example: Bart -Simpson
finds files with "Bart" in them but without the word "Simpson"
Excite Plus "+" and Minus Sign "-" Example: +animation -Simpsons
finds files with "animation" in them, but NOT "Simpsons"
Excite truncation apparently not available.
Excite Adjacency Example: "political cartoons" finds the phrase where the word "political" precedes the word "cartoons".
Excite proximity searching apparently not available.