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Capsule Comments
Since November 28th, 2001 when
Infospace purchased the assets of Excite@Home they
have not been considered a major player int eh Search
Engine world. Excite results consist of paid listings
from Overture, with non-paid results from Inktomi.
InfoSpace also operates meta search engines Dogpile
and MetaCrawler.
According to their website, 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.
Submission Notes
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