I'm not Excited

[toolman]

I can't find myself in excite and I started to dig and see what makes them tick. I can't make heads or tails of the results!

what does excite look for...title tags descriptions etc.

how does Looksmart fit in? Can't say I see this at all.

[bobriggs]

I'm not either. The silly spiders only fetch my robots.txt, which I have verified to be compliant, but they have never taken one single page from any of my sites. I have 2, starting back in December 2000.

I've heard speculation on these forums that a re-index will occur on or about Sep 2001.

I'd really like to get on excite, because the #2 isp that does come to my sites is @home. (after AOL). I think that a lot of @home users have their home page default to excite.com by way of the browser that is installed.

As far as looksmart, I can't answer. Maybe it will force excite spiders to look at more than robots.txt. I do have a site that when up to snuff, will be submitted to looksmart and Yahoo. But at this point I can't say what will happen. Maybe somebody has another experience. Excite looks worse than AV now, however AV seems to have gotten back on track.

[jimmykav]

Im not excited either. I think the Excite engine is very bad.
It took 4 months for my first submission to show up and within a week or two i had been dropped.
I added myself to looksmart thinking i would show up in the excite results but that only happens if the user elects to search the directory as opposed to the web.
I submited a url again 4 weeks ago and im now on the second page of results.

What annoys me is that i am at #1 or #2 on google, fast, lycos etc.

even more annoying is that the #1 result on excite is a redirect and when u click it you get a 404.

The results are stale & poor. and to rub salt in to the wound the bloody spider is all over my robots.txt for the last week.

[nathan_ali]

We've been submitting to Excite for over four months and nothing. Getting blood from Turnips would seem easier than getting on Excite right now. LOL

[lawman]

Took me about five months to get in. They are about the middle of my top ten referrers. MSN is #1, Yahoo a very close second, and Google a strong third.

[Friday]

Exciet has a long history of "dozing off" for 5 or 6 months at a tmie.
:-(
I don't know what keeps them in business.

Of course it's all moot now, since they've signed on with Overture.

At least for the time being,