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by redstripe 5739 days ago
They may not have had revenue in 1999 but they were by far the best search engine. Prior to discovering them I was using altavista, lycos, and when really frustrated, a random 3rd search engine. I quickly switched to exclusive google use within a very short time of finding the service. This was a company to be excited about because they were miles ahead of the entrenched competition.

If excite didn't see value in them it's because they were too busy pushing their portal garbage (along with everyone else).