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Information Literacy by Mariah Germosen

Information Literacy by Mariah Germosen. What comes to your mind when you think about the word EXCITE?. The real meaning of EXCITE. verb Definition : inspire ; upset

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Information Literacy by Mariah Germosen

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  1. Information Literacy by Mariah Germosen

  2. What comes to your mind when you think about the word EXCITE?

  3. The real meaning of EXCITE • verb • Definition: inspire; upset • Synonyms: accelerate, agitate,amaze, anger, animate, annoy, arouse, astound,awaken, bother, chafe, delight, discompose, disturb, electrify, elicit, energize, evoke, feed the fire, fire, fluster, foment, galvanize, goad, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, intensify, irritate, jar, jolt, kindle, madden, mock,move, offend, precipitate, provoke, quicken, rouse, start, stimulate, stir up, taunt, tease, thrill, titillate, touch off, vex,wake up, waken, warm, whet, work up, worry

  4. The Birth of EXCITE.COM • The popular public search engine Excite began life as a project called Architext created by six Stanford undergraduates in February 1993. • Their idea was to use statistical analysis of world relationships in order to provide more efficient searches through the large amount of information on the Internet. • Their project was fully funded by mid-1993. Once funding was secured, they released a version of their search software for webmasters to use on their own web sites. • The software today is called Excite for Web Servers.

  5. What is EXCITE.COM? • Excite is the leading personalization Web portal, featuring world-class search, content and functionality. From financial portfolios to sports scores, local weather, etc… • Can be personalized: to use your personalized Excite home page and take advantage of some of the features like: email, chat, boards and portfolios you must register as a member and create a username and password. • Registration is 100% free

  6. Take a look at EXCITE

  7. EXPLORE EXCITE

  8. Search Engines History 2003 – Microsoft redux 2001 – Goodbye GoTo, hello Overture 2000 – Some Web expertise 1999 – A winning search concept 1999 – Now that’s fast! 1998 – Its a hit! DirectHit 1998 – And in the other corner... MSN 1998 – And in this corner… Google 1998 – The Open (source) Directory Project 1997 – Ask Jeeves, the butler did it 1997 – GoTo, What do I bid? 1996 – LookSmart – the Australian connection 1996 – HotBot, one hot bot! 1995/96 – The Northern Light 1995 – AltaVista 1995 – The Meta-search 1994-95 – InfoSeek 1994 – Lycos 1994 – The WebCrawler 1994 – Yahoo! 1994 – A Galaxy of web pages 1993 – The birth of Excite - Second oldest Web Search Engine 1993 - AliWeb -The Web’s oldest existing search engine 1993 – The first web robot 1993 - Archie’s pal, Jughead 1993 - Veronica, the grandmother of search engines 1989 - Archie, the grandfather of all search engines

  9. My learning experience with Excite.com • Excite is one of the smaller search engines. • The Excite database had been used in the past by Netscape and AOL Netfind. Netscape has moved to a combination of the Open Directory and Google. AOL Netfind started using Inktomi in August 1999. • Strengths: Offers excellent relevant results for very popular queries Its News Search provides important access to Web versions of newspapers, magazines, and news wires. • Weaknesses: Smaller database Webpage design kind of outdated and dull Slow search Excite is no longer a separate search engine. As of Dec. 17, 2001, Excite.com ceased searching its own database. It now gives Overture paid positioning results and then Inktomi results from Overture. The directory is now the Open Directory. The news search uses Dogpile's meta news search.

  10. References • http://photobucket.com/ • http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/reviews/ • http://www.salientmarketing.com/search-engine-resources.html • http://myexcite.com • http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/excite

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