Excite - About Results

About Results

Excite users understand the value of searching the Web. By searching with Excite you get to search multiple search engines at once. Excite's meta-search technology highlights the strengths of many of the Web's major search properties, delivering more relevant and comprehensive results every time you search.

The results returned from these search engines include commercial (sponsored) and non-commercial results. The current Excite product is designed to identify the intent of a user's search. If the search term (i.e. buy roses) is determined to be commercial in-nature, a blended mix of results weighted towards sponsored results would be displayed. In the case of a non-commercial term (i.e. roses and aphids), the blended mix of results would be weighted towards research-driven results.

Excite searches and returns results from a collection of search partners, including:

Search Engines: A software program that searches a database by gathering and reporting information that contains or is related to specified terms.

Search engines searched by Excite include Google, FAST, Ask Jeeves and Inktomi.

Web Directories: Server(s) dedicated to indexing Internet Web pages and returning lists of pages, which match particular queries. Directories are normally compiled manually, by user submission, and often involve an editorial selection and/or categorization process.

Web directories searched by Excite include About, LookSmart and The Open Directory.

Pay-For-Placement: Engines that return relevant sponsored listings.

Paid search engines searched by Excite include Overture, FindWhat and Sprinks.

Other: Engines or databases that are meta-searched specifically for images, and news, as well as Excite Guaranteed Search Inclusion submissions.

Vertical search engines searched by Excite include FAST, Dogpile Newscrawler and Excite Guaranteed Search Inclusion, among others.

Thanks for making Excite your search engine of choice.