Also, at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday, Vinod Khosla spoke about when Google wanted to sell to Excite for less than $1 million, and they passed. Khosla talked Sergey Brin and Larry Page down to $750,000, but Excite CEO George Bell even rejected that.
That irritated search engine Excite so much that it even posted a page on how to count URLs, as you can see archived here. Lycos would talk about the number of pages it "knew" about, even if these weren't actually indexed or in any way accessible...
Ask Jeeves Acquires Excite Europe. Google has unveiled a new service that allows people to consolidate various Google features they use, ranging from web search to email, into a personalized home page.
WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com Formerly a crawled-based search engine owned by Excite, Webcrawler was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but offers a fast and...
It had news of Excite buying Magellan and Open Text selling keywords! Many of our popular sessions on search marketing are returning and offer information of interest to search marketers of all levels.
Veterans of AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek reminisce about the early days of web search, and opine about Google, then and now. Doug Cutting, Primary Developer, Nutch (formerly Senior Architect, Excite), Steve Kirsch, founder, Propel Software...
We've had stuff like this in the past on major search engines, especially at both AltaVista and Excite, if I recall correctly. Search Engine Strategies Set For Stockholm, Chicago + Search Engine Watch Articles + Best Of The Search Engine Watch Blog...
WebCrawler debuts new channels, following the lead of sister search engine Excite. Excite signs an agreement to acquire NetBot, a shopping search service. Excite announced $70 million deal to power Netscape search and produce content for Netscape's...
With Excite, the WebCrawler and Magellan properties ended up getting neglected. NOTE: REVENUE-RELATED ITEMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2004 ONWARD ARE LISTED IN THE REVENUES SECTION OF SEARCH TOPICS IN SEARCH ENGINE WATCH.
With Excite, the WebCrawler and Magellan properties ended up getting neglected. Fredrick Marckini changes his mind and decides that affiliates can be a good thing in search engine marketing, after talking with a number of merchants.
With Excite, the WebCrawler and Magellan properties ended up getting neglected. Fredrick Marckini changes his mind and decides that affiliates can be a good thing in search engine marketing, after talking with a number of merchants.
Ask Jeeves, Excite, and iWon were the only three other services to make the top ten, each with about 1% share. The two most frequently visited sites after an MSN search were Google.com and Yahoo.com, suggesting dissatisfaction with MSN search results.
Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, AltaVista, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves all are companies that tried to do both and jumped out of enterprise search. Google has added a disclaimer to the search results that come up in a response for a search on jew, to counter...
According to a press release issued by Ask Jeeves, Interactive Search Holdings was the 9th most visited property in December 2003, with popular but under the radar destinations such as My Way, My Search, My Web Search, iWon and former high-flyer...
Interactive Search Holdings properties include My Way, My Search, My Web Search, iWon, Excite and MaxOnline. By categorizing and analyzing search activity that includes local modifiers, such as city and state names, zip codes, phone numbers or the...
Excite@Home ISP Usage Share Soars, But Search Referrals At Excite.com Drop StatMarket, June 26, 2001 http://www.statmarket.com/cgi-bin/sm.cgi? Referrals from Excite were found to have dropped from 26.5 percent, as measured on Jan.to 2.4 percent, as...
Ask Jeeves steps up search competition with Excite deal. A new search engine focuses solely on investment-related information from more than 12,000 companies around the world. InfoSpace Latest Search Supporter of XML Syndication.
HotBot took the top honors in the search engine category, while Excite and Yahoo got finalist mentions. Excite got knocked down for bad news search results, while WebCrawler was highly rated for its news search.
Eurekster's sister company SLI has a relationship with some smaller search companies, such as Comet Systems, Excite Networks and CNET's Search.com to provide related searches technology. Excite sold to @Home.
Just ask Go/Infoseek, Excite and Lycos, all of which have but a shade of the traffic they once held, despite playing the acquisition game. A longer version of this article is available to Search Engine Watch members.
