| We knew that
we didn't want to work for any big company. We wanted to work together and do
something entrepreneurial.
-
Joe Kraus, Excite CEO,
Red Herring magazine, 1995.
|
Excite is one
of the original search engines. It was conceived
by five hackers taking a political science major, then founded by Mark Van
Haren, Ryan
McIntyre, Ben
Lutch, Joe Kraus, Graham Spencer, and
Martin
Reinfried, over dinner in Rosita's Taqueria in Redwood City, California on February
28,
1993.
With 65 employees, the company went public in April, 1996 with an initial
offering of 2 million shares at $17 each, and then later merged with the @Home
cable Internet service
provider
in
May, 1999, to create a combined Internet content and services company.
Key Excite search features are
listed below:
| Search
Features |
| Function
| Example
| Results
|
| Boolean
| space
AND mars | both
"space" and "mars" |
| |
space OR mars
| "space"
or "mars" |
| |
space AND (mars OR venus)
| "space"
and either "mars" or "venus". Always put brackets around OR keywords connected
to AND |
| |
space AND NOT mars
| space,
but no pages with "mars" |
| |
+space +mars -venus
| "space"
and "mars" but not "venus" - not recommended - use "space and mars and not venus"
instead |
| Language
| zéro
| only
French language word "zéro" |