I was reading an article that mentioned the search engine Excite. I had completely forgot about it; it seems as though the past few years the only search engines that are talked about are Google, MSN, and Yahoo.

Just one of those things that makes me stop and think for a minute.

Yes, I remember Excite. Excite@Home, etc. They had free services like Yahoo and Google. There was also Lycos. Aren't they still around?

CNet just had a thing about 10 .com that went bust intresting read.

I remember excite havent heard that name in years there was another place I used to go to was winfiles.com, but they got taken over by download.com :/

Never heard of Excite, but have used Ask Jeeves before.

Yes, at primary school we all at Excite email accounts until it just became unreliable and we have an internal system instead. That was 7 yeasr ago in 1998.

http://excite.com/ I still have a email account with them.

hmmm...rings a bell. iknow lycos still exist. havent had any news on excite

Yep. I remember Excite, although I didn't realise they were still around.

I forgot about excite, but they didn't forget about me.. I just logged in with my account info I created like 7 years ago and it still has all of my preferences.

Yeah sure I remember excite

I remember Excite, never used it though. Pre-Google I was always a Yahoo man.

I used it a little, but nothing like I used to use Yahoo! I still use Yahoo! a lot, but not as much as Google.

I used to use Excite a while back but for the past year or two I've been using either Yahoo! or Google...

That was quite a long time ago... dont think I even had an account. But I have a PCWorld mousepad that has the link for it as a search engine

I never used Excite. I found "www.alltheweb.com" before Google hit it big, and loved how fast it returned results. I still use it depending on what I'm searching for...at times, it's better than google.

When I very first started using the internet, the only search engine I ever used was Web Crawler. It was the only one I had heard of at the time and thought it must be the best. That was almost 10 years ago... I'm surprised to see them still around.

Now, taking first prize is Google. If I really need to look elsewhere, then I check MSN Search. If I still can't find it... then it must not exist.

Isn't Yahoo just a repackage of Google?

-Priest-

one of the best SE during the advent of the internet

seems to be forgotten now


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A while back, Excite and Comcast were going to merge/partner up. Originally Comcast customers had @home addresses, which is where the excite@home comes from. At any rate, it went sour before it happened, and ever since then I've not heard anything new or current about Excite. Now, Comcast customers have @comcast.net emails.

They really should have gone through with the merger, but ah well.

Ah, Excite. I vaguely remember them. Never really used their service

Edit: Post 800!

Wow, did the site always look so tacky?

Back in that day that was a great-looking site, before CSS and PHP.

I saw a benner add for Them a few days ago.

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I used a program we installed on our PC's, called Web Ferret, twas' back in the day of dial-up!