Excite

Excite presently is one of the leading searching systems of North America and Western Europe, except it she is popular and in other countries of the world. 

Starting later than other powerful systems - at the end of 1995 - the system conquered popularity quickly, as offers the great number of query facilities in the most different informative environments. Among them - WWW, news from electronic magazines and newspapers, E are mail addresses, geographical maps and atlases of roads, weather, quotations of actions, and also such facilities as search and backuping of places in hotels, transport vehicles etc.

In addition, Excite supports a few useful services unconnected with a search, among them is the system of commonunication in real time Excite Pal, free E - Mail provider MailExcite, service of horoscopes and other great deal.

The catalogue of Excite contains the more than 80 thousand selected by hand references presenting the best Internet- resources in most areas of human activity, every reference is accompanied by a short comment (3-4 lines). 

Exactly on Excite the concept of thematic "channels" was first entered. The searching machine of Excite indexes more than 50 million documents, indexation is produced in complete text. Among all foreign systems, Excite gives the highest релевантность results for a simple search. It is related to that the unique heuristic system of the inquiry of Intelligent Concept Extraction (tm) processing is realized in Excite - on the entered keywords of Excite tries to define that an user wanted to find and searches on sense, rather than just words by word.

Due to it, an user can get the quality results of search, even if the sought after pages do not contain the entered keywords.

Unfortunately, this system works only for English and is unique - analogues do not exist on other languages. Two interesting investigations follow from such feature of Excite. Firstly, it is possible to carry out a search in human language. Secondly, Excite can help an user in the unusual types of search, for example it is possible to enter (approximately) quotation, to get references to the pages sanctified to her author.

On the page of results of search of Excite guides the found documents out of groupment on a web-site, the percent of релевантности hatches for every result. Near every result there is reference of "More Like This", that allows to decrease the amount of results, leaving among them only "look" like chosen. In addition, under a line a few words most often meeting in the found documents hatch for a new search - it is possible to choose some of them (to mark relevant) for reduction of amount of results.

The interesting feature of Excite is an address advertisement - an advertisement banner on a page with the results of search is frequently related to the theme of search. Possibilities of the extended search on Excite are realized at base level. Besides standard boolean operations above terms, limitation of search of one of categories (3-4 regional bases of Excite, Usenet, News, WWW) area is present only.

By means of brackets and special characters straight in the line of input on a basic page it is possible to enter words and phrases that must be present, must be not in a document, alternative keywords and others like that. For those, whoever wants to understand complications of syntax of query, there is "Power Query", on a page with that it is possible to build the query, choosing terms and boolean operations from falling out lists.

Unfortunately, all this splendour of searching resources and intellectual searchabilities is oriented only to English. Excite in general does not support Russian. Very interesting possibility of Excite is possibility of personalisation of page.

Registering oneself, an user gets the personal page, on that the panel of search of Excite, fresh news, is present on themes, interesting a subscriber and other. Original appearance of page can be changed on the taste.

Presently a search engine of Excite is perspective enough and developing, that does not cost in place and constantly improves the service, attracting everything new and new users in the world.