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DID YOU
KNOW?

Excite was created in 1995 by six young software developers in the garage of a suburban Calif. home.

OWNERSHIP
Excite is a property of IAC.
SEARCH ENGINES PROFILES

Excite : www.excite.com


Company Excite is a Web portal with a customizable home page. The metasearch engine provides the top search results from sites including Google, Yahoo! and Ask.com. Users can check stocks, sport scores, weather and their daily fortune.

Partners
  • InfoSpace powers Excite.
  • The Excite Network consists of Excite and iWon.

  • HeadquartersIrvington, N.Y.
    Timeline
    2004 Ask Jeeves acquires Interactive Search Holdings, which previously owned Excite.
    2001 iWon acquires Excite.
    1996 Excite acquires WebCrawler. Architext Software is renamed Excite.
    1995 Excite launches.
    1994 Excite is founded by six Stanford University students.

    Last Update: 09/12/08