Transcript Excite.com - CMP230LA01

Information Literacy
by
Mariah Germosen
WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND WHEN YOU THINK
ABOUT THE WORD EXCITE?
THE REAL MEANING OF EXCITE
 verb
 Definition:
inspire; upset
 Synonyms: accelerate, agitate
astound,
, amaze, anger, animate, annoy, arouse,
awaken, bother, chafe, delight, discompose, disturb, electrify,
elicit, energize, evoke, feed the fire, fire, fluster, foment, galvanize, goad,
incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, intensify, irritate, jar, jolt, kindle,
madden, mock,
offend, precipitate, provoke, quicken, rouse, start,
move,
stimulate, stir up, taunt, tease, thrill, titillate, touch off, vex,
waken, warm, whet,
work up, worry
wake up,
THE BIRTH OF EXCITE.COM
 The popular public search engine Excite began life as a project called
Architext created by six Stanford undergraduates in February 1993.
 Their idea was to use statistical analysis of world relationships in order to
provide more efficient searches through the large amount of information on
the Internet.
 Their project was fully funded by mid-1993. Once funding was secured, they
released a version of their search software for webmasters to use on their
own web sites.
 The software today is called Excite for Web Servers.
WHAT IS EXCITE.COM?
 Excite is the leading personalization Web portal, featuring world-class search,
content and functionality. From financial portfolios to sports scores, local
weather, etc…
 Can be personalized: to use your personalized Excite home page and take
advantage of some of the features like: email, chat, boards and portfolios you
must register as a member and create a username and password.
 Registration is 100% free
TAKE A LOOK AT EXCITE
EXPLORE EXCITE
SEARCH ENGINES HISTORY
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2003 – Microsoft redux
2001 – Goodbye GoTo, hello Overture
2000 – Some Web expertise
1999 – A winning search concept
1999 – Now that’s fast!
1998 – Its a hit! DirectHit
1998 – And in the other corner... MSN
1998 – And in this corner… Google
1998 – The Open (source) Directory
Project
1997 – Ask Jeeves, the butler did it
1997 – GoTo, What do I bid?
1996 – LookSmart – the Australian
connection
1996 – HotBot, one hot bot!
1995/96 – The Northern Light
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1995 – AltaVista
1995 – The Meta-search
1994-95 – InfoSeek
1994 – Lycos
1994 – The WebCrawler
1994 – Yahoo!
1994 – A Galaxy of web pages
1993 – The birth of Excite - Second oldest
Web Search Engine
1993 - AliWeb -The Web’s oldest existing
search engine
1993 – The first web robot
1993 - Archie’s pal, Jughead
1993 - Veronica, the grandmother of search
engines
1989 - Archie, the grandfather of all search
engines
MY LEARNING EXPERIENCE WITH EXCITE.COM
 Excite was one of the most famous search engines in the 1990s.
 The Excite database had been used in the past by Netscape and AOL Netfind.
Netscape has moved to a combination of the Open Directory and Google. AOL
Netfind started using Inktomi in August 1999.
 Strengths:
Offers excellent relevant results for very popular queries
Its News Search provides important access to Web versions of newspapers,
magazines, and news wires.
 Weaknesses:
Smaller database
Webpage design kind of outdated and dull
Slow search
Excite is no longer a separate search engine. As of Dec. 17, 2001, Excite.com ceased
searching its own database. It now gives Overture paid positioning results and then
Inktomi results from Overture. The directory is now the Open Directory. The news
search uses Dogpile's meta news search.
REFERENCES
http://photobucket.com/
Retrieved from Photo bucket on March, 2013
2006© Salient Marketing - search engine market research, market segmentation,
search engine positioning, web personalization and technology/web applications
http://www.salientmarketing.com/search-engine-resources.html
 http://myexcite.com
Retrieved from Excite.com on March, 2013
 http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/excite