1. Information Literacy by Mariah Germosen

2. WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORD EXCITE?

3. THE REAL MEANING OF EXCITE  verb  Definition: inspire ; upset  Synonyms: accelerate, agitate, amaze, anger, animate, annoy, arouse, astound, 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, move, offend, precipitate, provoke, quicken, rouse, start, stimulate, stir up, taunt, tease, thrill, titillate, touch off, vex, wake up, waken, warm, whet, work up, worry

4. 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.

5. 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

6. TAKE A LOOK AT EXCITE

7. EXPLORE EXCITE

8. SEARCH ENGINES HISTORY  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  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

10. 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.

12. 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 http://myexcite.com Retrieved from Excite.com on March, 2013  http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/excite http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/excite