Excite.com is an outstanding site with so much to do on it. Excite.com has websites in various countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Holland, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and of course, the United Kingdom.
With Excite.com, they allow you to sign up for an excite email account. With this you have the opportunity to set up your start up page to how you prefer it. A helpful feature of the email account is that when you visit the homepage, you are informed of when you have mail, the message being “You have mail!”.
Once in your email account you have many options.
Controls
Check Messages allows you to check the messages that are waiting in your inbox.
Compose Message allows the user to write a new message.
Empty Trash – empty the messages that are in your trash, so that they don’t exist anymore.
Address Book is where you can store all of your contacts.
Storage Limits shows you details about how much of your account is taken up, and how much you have left.
Subscriptions gives you a list of organizations that you can subscribe to.
Preferences allows you to edit parts of your account. For example, choosing your signature and customizing your inbox.
Help gives you a helping hand on what to do whilst on excite.com.
Communicate
Send Free E-Cards – send cards to people electronically.
Send Party Invites – send invitations to people.
Voice Chat – speak to people online.
Instant Message – send messages to friends using the excite instant messenger.
Share Your Calendar – share your dates in your calendar with others.
Webshots Photos – Look at photos.
Send a Video Email – Send a video to friends using email.
Shortcuts
Music Radio – listen to the radio online.
Find a Job – Get a job online.
Horoscopes – Read your horoscopes online.
Download MP3’s – download MP3’s.
Shopping – shop online.
Photo Search – Perform a search of photos online.
Buy a Home – You can buy a home online.
Partners
Free Psychic Reading – Have a psychic reading online.
Returning to the main home page of Excite.com, you can see straight away that their main offer to users of the site is the “Excite Precision Search”. Using this search you can search for any web site or topic you wish and many results will be found.
Today on excite is a section which contains the main feature day to day.
My stocks gives you information on various stocks for sale throughout the world. The stock price and change in price is also given.
You can also get the weather forecast for the day. You can search for your areas weather by using Postal code.
Another of the main features of excite.com is the large news archive they have on offer.
Main news, Top Stories, Business News, Technology News, and Sports News are all part of the news service given to you by excite.com
To Conclude
Overall, Excite.com offers so much to non-subscribers and subscribers. I would say that the email service, and the search service as well as the news are the most useful part of the service.
An excellent, easy to use site with so much on offer makes way for more success in the future.