Talk:Excite (web portal)/Archive 1

Stale content
Is Excite.com failing? I've had it as one of my three or four news/features websites that I check in with every day, and for the past week or so, the news items are several days old. For example, today (2010/9/23) the news sections are all dated Sept. 17 (although Sports is just one day old). Also, the Weather feature is broken, too, by which I mean it's displaying weather conditions for my location that bear no connection to reality. --Spiff666 (talk) 13:10, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

PBS Documentary
Back in the mid 90s there was a documentary that highlighted the Excite (Then Architext) team. It would be good to add that information. 67.169.145.35 (talk) 11:35, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

POV issue and unatributed information
This article have POV issues, it reads like someone who has a personal need to make the failed company out to be more then it was.

Issues:

TJ did not leave as CEO for over 6 months after the merge and it was not part of the deal. This is completely incorrect.

The value of offer put forth by Yahoo was well below the claimed 6billion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.211.180.194 (talk) 23:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Changed @Home redirect to point to @Home Network
I changed the @Home redirect to point to @Home Network instead of Excite. In reviewing both articles it appears that the other article appears to be a more appropriate redirect. Dugwiki 17:55, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Article Cleanup
I am at work so I can't do the cleanup right now; however this article has many different spelling and grammatical errors. The formatting of the article is abysmal also. GZadmin 21:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Cleaned up to a point; will do more later. MSJapan 04:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Excite Groups and Child Pornography
Can't see any reference here to the Excite Groups community that had many groups displaying and sharing child pornography. The organisation "Better a Millstone" campaigned vigorously against Excite a few years ago, had most of Excite's advertisers withdraw, and surely must have contributed to Excite's demise. Excite closed down its Groups community almost immediately. --MichaelGG 11:14, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

In Japan
We should write something about Excites popularity in Japan. According to Alexa, excite.co.jp is more popular than excite.com. Especially the English<->Japanese translator (similar to bablefish) is very popular. --Apoc2400 (talk) 21:23, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The search engine: more like this
IIRC I was impressed with Excite, particularly because they added a feature to find more like the result you indicated. There is little about the nature of the engine, or interface, or technology. Should that be here or in a search engine history or comparative discussion? Midgley (talk) 13:31, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

is this bit about disinfo/niche search engine true?
the link that is provided mentions 'disinformation' but does not mention anything regarding excite building a 'rock n'roll' or niche search engine or what that means exactly. no suggestion as to if that means a searchable music-index or a specialized music-web-page search engine or what. not sure if it belongs in the introduction as it is vague and mostly unsubstantiated. can i remove? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.230.224.28 (talk) 03:46, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Attempted Google sale to Excite
The cited source (minyanville.com) has links to sources about Bell and his various deals, but none about the attempted Google deal. It is the sole source for the whole paragraph. A search produced no corroborating sources. The ref previously stated that the publisher was MSNBC, when it was actually Minyanville. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary, and truthful, supporting citations. --Lexein (talk) 16:15, 27 July 2011 (UTC)