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Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Goes To Overture The death of the old Excite search engine happened in December, when new owners InfoSpace dropped results from the Excite crawler in favor of a page heavily dominated by paid listings from Overture...   |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Makes Changes Excite has finished making changes to its search interface, mostly minor alterations that that service hopes will improve usability. Here's what you will find that's different... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite May Be Out; FAST Has Further Layoffs The future looks dim for Excite@Home, which operates the Excite search engine. The company has creditors calling in their loans, putting it into possible bankruptcy. Meanwhile, FAST Search has had its second round of layoffs this year... |
Wired
January 2002
Cory Johnson |
Tools of Self-Destruction What pushed Excite@Home into ruin? Blame it on carelessness -- or something even worse. But don't be confused: It's clear that certain financial decisions made by company board members and executives helped drive Excite@Home to destruction... |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Kills Magellan; WebCrawler Remains Excite@Home's Magellan search service, long abandoned by users and Excite itself, was finally put out of its misery and quietly closed about two months ago... |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Excite Changes Look, Results Excite has released a new look to its search results that also coincides with a new ranking system. The simple design mimics the "less is more" move that AltaVista kicked off in May with its Raging Search... |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Next To Go? Excite@Home may be the next to depart the portal playing field, given the signals it has been sending out recently... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 1999 |
Excite Enlarging Index, Partnered With LookSmart In August, Excite began the first phase of an ambitious plan to enlarge its search index to 250 million web pages and improve the relevancy of its search results. The search engine also debuted new LookSmart-powered directory listings. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite, NBCi Reduce Workforce Along with other search-oriented services, Excite and NBCi also cut staff in January... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite@Home Goes Bankrupt; AltaVista Cuts Staff Two of the web's oldest search engines had more bad financial news, with Excite@Home filing for bankruptcy last Friday and AltaVista also announcing a new round of layoffs last month... |
Wired
January 2002
Frank Rose |
The $7 Billion Delusion Excite@Home promised to merge the search geeks and the cablecos to become the AOL of broadband. Then the tragedy of reality set in... |
PC World
August 22, 2001
Tom Mainelli |
Excite@Home's Money Trouble Won't Disrupt Service Even if firm folds, broadband cable service is poised to continue... |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
April 2000 Search Engine Briefs Brief items about how to merge multiple search pages into one, an update meta search tool from Go, the closure of WebCrawler's search voyeur, and a new job search engine. |
PC World
November 28, 2001 |
Excite@Home Service Could Cease Creditors seek to cut off broadband service pending Excite@Home's acquisition by AT&T... |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Tim Gray |
Jeeves Heads to Europe Search engine Ask Jeeves announced Friday it has purchased Excite Italia, the operator of Excite Europe, from Tiscali. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
European Search Engine News Yahoo makes paid submission mandatory for businesses in the UK and a new option for those in Italy. LookSmart UK begins powering former rival UK Plus and has launched a paid placement service. And Excite is back -- at least in some European countries, powered by FAST. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Dead Search Engines There have been major and significant changes in the search engine industry over the past few years, with surprising announcements almost every month. While most of the search engines' domains remain active, the actual state of the search engines is quite different... |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
Feb. 2000 Search Engine Briefs Brief items about new info tool Octopus, Inktomi's web size measurement, Excite enlarging its index and free internet access at AltaVista and Excite. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The End For Search Engines? The impending closure of Go only underscores the dramatic changes that have been taking place among the major search engines. Money is tight; new revenue is being sought anywhere, and no one seems guaranteed a future. Will your favorite search engine be around tomorrow? |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Searching Beyond Text: Multimedia Search Tools We examine some of the search engines available for tracking down the multimedia files available on the Net... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Gets Search Refinement Feature, Paid Listings Coming Excite's new "Zoom In" search refinement feature debuted on the site last month, and the service will be gaining paid listings later this month... |
Inc.
June 1, 2003
Robert X. Cringely |
What's Next: Do One Thing Right Smart companies are finding ways to make money on the Net. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
August 99 Search Engine Briefs HotBot has added a "Search Within" feature to its site. After you do a search, look to the right of the search box on the results page. You'll see a "Search within these results" option. Select the option, then enter new terms, and HotBot will run your query against only the pages that were found from the original search. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Roundup Various changes at search engines, such as the new "Most Popular" feature at AOL to a WAP search engine from AltaVista. |
ONLINE
September 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update After several months of announcing the death or significant retrenchment of many of the old search engines, it is a pleasure to be able to report more new search engines that, despite the dot com economic downturn, are currently offering free access to their services... |
Search Engine Watch
October 20, 2004
Mike Grehan |
Search Memories Veterans of AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek reminisce about the early days of web search, and opine about Google, then and now. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Excite@Home To Sell Domain Portfolio The holding company put in charge of the remains of Excite@Home is selling its 119 domain names to the highest bidder. |
CIO
June 15, 2001
Jason Compton |
Dial K for Knowledge With frantic researchers and frustrated analysts in mind, British Telecom created an online site that provides competitive information for its employees. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lasoo Makes Geosearching Visual Imagine if your search results were overlaid upon a map. It would be a useful view to have for geographically-related searches and one that Lasoo provides... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2005 |
Adopt-An-Author Adopt-An-Author is a free, Webbased, nationwide non-profit program designed to excite students about reading and writing through the use of best-selling thrillers, heroic nonfiction stories, and motivational books chosen by the site because they are fun and interesting. |
