- Happy Birthday, Excite!
Date: 2002-10-01 Source: SearchDay
Excite, the first search engine to go beyond keywords and introduce concept based searching to the web, opened its virtual doors to the public seven years ago.
[Open In New Window] - Excite Goes To Overture
Date: 2002-01-07 Source: The Search Engine Report
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.
[Open In New Window] - The $7 Billion Delusion
Date: 2002-01-01 Source: Wired
Excite@Home promised to merge the search geeks and the cablecos to become the AOL of broadband. Then the tragedy of reality set in.
[Open In New Window] - The end of Excite as we know it
Date: 2001-11-30 Source: Pandia
Infospace will take over the Excite.com portal from Excite@Home. The portal lives on, but the Excite search engine goes to the place where all search engines go when they die: the large back up tape in the sky.
[Open In New Window] - Excite.com Spared from Extinction
Date: 2001-11-29 Source: Search Engine Watch
A U.S. Bankruptcy court has approved InfoSpace's $10 million bid for certain Excite@Home assets, including domain names, trademarks and user traffic associated with the Excite.com Web site.
[Open In New Window] - Excite Closes NewsTracker, Search Voyeur
Date: 2001-11-05 Source: The Search Engine Report
Excite is closing its NewsTracker news search service this month, while its Search Voyeur display that showed what people were searching for at Excite closed last month. Fortunately, there are plenty of alternative resources like these, offered by others.
[Open In New Window] - Excite@Home Goes Bankrupt
Date: 2001-10-02 Source: The Search Engine Report
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.
[Open In New Window] - Excite May Be Out; FAST Has Further Layoffs
Date: 2001-09-04 Source: The Search Engine Report
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.
[Open In New Window] - Excite in big trouble
Date: 2001-08-22 Source: Pandia
The American portal Excite is in big trouble. Excite@Home, which owns Excite, has nearly USD 1 billion in debt and is constantly loosing money.
[Open In New Window] - @Home: At the End of Its Rope?
Date: 2001-08-20 Source: InternetNews.com
Excite@Home Corp.'s situation appears to have gone from bad to worse as investors reacted to the company's 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday -- a filing which admitted that the company has "substantial doubt" as to its ability to continue as a going concern.
[Open In New Window] - Excite Next To Go?
Date: 2001-05-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
Excite@Home may be the next to depart the portal playing field, given the signals it has been sending out recently.
[Open In New Window] - Excite, NBCi Reduce Workforce
Date: 2001-02-06 Source: Search Engine Watch
Excite@Home laid off 250 people and retains about 2,750 on payroll. In terms of search, the layoffs had the most impact on Excite's directory listings, rather than its web wide crawling.
[Open In New Window] - Excite@Home Ups Financial Content
Date: 2000-10-25 Source: InternetNews.com
Excite@Home has secured a multiple platform content and sponsorship alliance with the international online financial services firm, TD Waterhouse Investor Services, a subsidiary of TD Waterhouse Group.
[Open In New Window] - Excite@Home Skipper Resigns
Date: 2000-09-19 Source: InternetNews.com
Excite@Home Chief Executive Officer George Bell Tuesday said he was stepping down, making him the second chief since May to quit that post.
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