Excite (web portal)
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Excite is an American website (historically a web portal) operated by IAC that provides outsourced internet content such as a metasearch engine, with outsourced weather and news content on the main page. As of 2024, all of Excite's operations are controlled by services outside of the business.
Type of site | Metasearch engine with outsourced Portal components |
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Available in | English Japanese (Itochu venture) |
Predecessor(s) | Architext |
Successor(s) | BlueTie (webmail operations) |
Area served | United States Japan (brand only, through Itochu) |
Owner | IAC |
URL | excite |
Commercial | Mixed |
Registration | None |
Launched | October 1995; 28 years ago (1995-10) |
Current status | Active but not updated since 2021 (As of 2024, all of Excite's operations are controlled by services outside of the business.) |
In the United States, the main Excite homepage had historically a personal start page and web portal called My Excite. Excite once operated a webmail service commonly known as Excite Mail until August 31, 2021, when it would be renamed BlueTie and given a paid business model rather than the free model of Excite Mail.
The original Excite company was founded in 1994 and went public two years later. Excite was once a popular site on the Internet during the 1990s, with the main portal site Excite.com being the sixth most visited website in 1997. The company merged with broadband provider @Home Network but together went bankrupt in 2001. Excite's portal and services were acquired by iWon and then by Ask Jeeves, but the website went into a steep decline in popularity afterwards.