Excite.com

Offering 5 main categories for searching: web; images; video; mp3; news (CLICK for home page)

Other services are offered to anyone who signs up for free Excite membership: email; chat; local weather.. you can even personalise the style and colours of the homepage you visit on Excite.com (even without membership you can click on colour buttons to change the background colours of the website.

Home page has hot links into a number of news-type services: Entertainment; Sports Scene; Digital Edge; Sexploits; Web Twitcher; Weather... and other categories referred to as "Channels".

Facility to search the UK by regions (12): CLICK

Ownership - once part of AT&T (CLICK) Excite was owned by IAC Search & Media, which is also the parent of Ask.com and Evite, and was part of Barry Diller's InterActiveCorporation. On October 17, 2007 GOADV (www.goadv.com), a media company specialised in generating traffic on the Internet, announced the completion of its acquisition of the European Excite group of companies.