Excite

Excite is an Internet portal with search engine and web directory private.

It was one of the most famous sites of the internet and was with Yahoo and Netscape one of the pioneers of the " dotcom " of the 1990s. At that time, Excite working with his own search algorithms and bribed by a very unerring compared to the competition ranking. Meanwhile, works as a search service at excite.com a metasearch engine and the sites for different countries present themselves as diverse customizable web portals, with the appearance in the different countries in some cases significantly different from the others.

Diverse range of information through cooperation with various third-party, such as directions of map24.com.

History

Excite was as Archi text of Mark Van Haren, Ryan McIntyre, Ben Lutch, Joe Kraus, Graham Spencer and Martin Rein Fried (except Kraus all computer students at Stanford University) established in 1994 with a starting capital of $ 4000. 1995 Following a round of funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Geoff Yang of Institutional Venture Partners over 1.5 million U.S. $ each. and the site went online. 1996, the company purchased the search engine Magellan and WebCrawler. On 28 May 1999, the company merged with the broadband Internet provider @ Home Network and changed his name to Excite @ Home. For $ 780 million, they bought the greeting cards company Blue Mountain Arts. That same year, Larry Page and Sergey Brin offered their search engine google for a takeover bid of U.S. $ 1 million to excite that Excite refused. By the dotcom bubble in March 2000, the company lost value and 2001 had already dire financial straits.

The company was acquired by Ask.com in March 2004. Excite is currently owned by IAC Search & Media.

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  • Webmail
  • Search Engine
  • Metasearch engine
  • Web Directory
  • Internet companies
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