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What Happened to Excite? Why the Search Engine That Turned Down Google for $750,000 Disappeared

What really killed Excite had nothing to do with turning down Google. This video breaks down the full story of how Excite went from one of the most visited websites in the world to a bankruptcy filing, tracing the commercial logic behind every major decision the company made and where that logic eventually broke down.

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What really killed Excite had nothing to do with turning down Google. This video breaks down the full story of how Excite went from one of the most visited websites in the world to a bankruptcy filing, tracing the commercial logic behind every major decision the company made and where that logic eventually broke down.

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