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Since December 17th, 2001 Excite results were produced from Overture, although apparently not entirely in a bid-sequence. I have a #1 rankling keyword phrase on excite, and DO NOT have that keyword phrase on Overture. I do have it at Inktomi, though, and that is where is comes from.

 

Excite is a MetaSearch engine receiving results from Overture, Inktomi, Fast, AskJeeves, Looksmart, About.com, and FindWhat. It is not yet clear how relevance (results sequence) is determined, but it appears to be determined by the algorithms of the other search engines providing the results.

I suspect Excite results come from Pay-Per-Click engines first, notably Overture followed by Inktomi.

 

I recommend using Inktomi to get listed. You pay a small yearly fee for each link, which is updated every 48 hours or so, and then you can add links for free here.

Excite, WebCrawler, and Magellan all use the same database in conducting their searches; therefore, these search engines return the same results.

 

The following search engines or directories provide content to Excite:

 

Overture
Inktomi
Fast
AskJeeves
Looksmart

 

The following search engines receive content from Excite:

 

Magellan
WebCrawler

 

WebCrawler and Magellan are virtual clones of the Excite results, generally with a different presentation on the same information.