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for excite.co.uk

Rating Summary based on 39 reviews

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  • 35 of 35 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    vinodgm

    4 Stars Whats all the Excitement About 30/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Covers just about every aspect of computer life and requirements

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Being a new user of Excite’s free e-mail service I thought it worthy of writing an opinion on Excite.com, itself. Covering all aspects of Excite is not an easy task since they do just about everything and one look at their homepage tells it all. Unlike other companies such as Virgin, Excite have not monopolized each product or service, with their own affiliate or associate companies, and thus arises the important difference. The realization of a competitive and informative service. It would be almost impossible to cover every aspect of Excite’s services and if I did try this ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    darrenloud

    3 Stars Wide Range Of Features - To Slow To Use 21/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Wide range of features and resources.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Website is on a slow server, much of the content is out-of-date.

    Excite is a web portal. Simply, a website that offers a wide range of different tools to assist your online experience. The most famous site of this genre is Yahoo!, although there are many 'portals' out there. Here's a run down on what Excite has to offer: Search Engine - One of the main features of this site. Functions as an intelligent engine, but isn't great on accuracy or speed. Nor is it updated regularly, it can be very hard to get a site listed within this search engine. Email - Standard, web-based email. Not too bad, hosts all the main features you would expect. Although the situation ... more
  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    BJEEE

    4 Stars Worth a sneeky peak 16/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Excellent SMS, good search, and everything else really

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Pages too full to allow 100% understanding at first glance

    Like Yahoo, Excite is another one of those sites, which has everything. In my tedious hours of boredom at college, I have spent a lot of time looking around, just checking out new sites. This one is by no means new, but I only started visiting it very recently when it was pointed out by a friend (a 20 year old friend who used to play around with the 12 year old girl ‘love’ stuff that they have there – you’ll see what I mean if you take a look). Excite is actually a quite ‘jam packed’ site and quite colourful. It will surely cheer you up on a rainy day (if ... more
  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    foobie2

    4 Stars EXCITED YET 26/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages So many extras

    Disadvantages Disadvantages some pages too full

    Excite is one of those sites that has everything. I originally started with the thoughts of using it as a search engine. As soon as you see the site for the first time though, you'll notice just how much more than that it really is. The first thing I noticed about it was its very complicated look. I just sat there thinking "Oh my God, where to now?". No, not really, it wasn't quite that bad. Although there is always a lot packed in to their pages. Its easy enough to understand. Pages are very colourful when compared to other similar sites. They mostly stick to a orange/yellow and blue scheme ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    enturi

    3 Stars Don't get too excited 17/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages lots of features

    Disadvantages Disadvantages looks gritty, bad search

    Tell me about this excite then? Well excite.co.uk has move towards a portal setting in the last few months, it says it reaches 56% of the UK internet users, you basically type in what you want to search for then choose the option you want to search in, ie UK sites, web, news, europe, photos, mp3 etc. These may seem good but behind the boring look and advertising banners, it often lists irrelevent results and huge numbers of them to! That sounds pretty bad, what else can you do on this site then? Well many things really the main features are "free email", "free sms", "free e-cards" and other ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Scribbler

    2 Stars Nothing to be Excited about 05/02/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Decent voicemail service

    Disadvantages Disadvantages useless search engine, other features pale in comparison to other sites

    Excite really isn't much of a search engine, the search facilities are one of the poorest I've seen. Out of all of the sample searches I've tried, they all failed miserably. Thankfully, there is much, much more to Excite than simply searching. Sign up for a free personal account and receive your own personal start page, email, voicemail/fax number, SMS sending and even take part in the interactive games. Although none of the features are new, they might be considered adequate for less demanding users. The voicemail, provided by Virtualplus provides you with a local (0845) number, which makes a ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Saqqqq

    3 Stars Excite needs to get more exciting! 12/07/2000
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Good search and you can customize it well.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Needs to add something that will make it stand out!

    Well it was the great TV advert that got me first going to this site but I am unhappy to say the site does not look nearly as "exciting" as the adverts. It looks rahter plain and boring and I feel in a world where there is huge competition for internet users, you would have hoped EXCITE could spice up their design. Having said that, the functions are flawless. The typical free email, WAP phone compatability, local weather, typical shopping sevices etc etc. The search engine is pretty useful for UK searches, quite comprehensive and you can personalise the sitequite a bit to satisfy your own ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    felix.ferrero

    5 Stars Excite, it just keeps on improving 26/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good search engine, free sms messaging

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None really, just a less clustered page

    Excite.co.uk is certainly one of the better search engines about. I use excite constantly and always find what I need. But that's not all excite has to offer, free webmail, free sms text messages, news and much more. It is all on Excite. As a search engine it offers all the basics, UK Searches, Web Searches, MP3, Videos and a very good Advanced Search Engine. If you have never used an advanced search then try the one at excite, it works very well. Searching the internet is always much easier with a search engine that works, one that does not offer you loads of advertising banners, just a ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Sharon124UK

    5 Stars Chat 12/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages addictive

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    Excite is another great way of chatting! It is all very straight forward and all you have to do is choose a member ID. There are many chatrooms to choose from ,including, 20's, 30's, music, everything you could think of! It runs very quick also which is a good thing, you can do searches for your friends on here too so you are never out of touch with anyone! This chat facility is available to people of all ages and nothing could be easier! So go on, choose a name and get chatting, you will never be alone again :-) ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    richardjmeek

    4 Stars Good Prices but stick to Ciao for Information 08/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages chaep flights

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not that informative

    Excite travel is a fairly informative guide to most countrys and cities in the world. You can search by country and by city to find your destination and excite takes you to a page of text about the particular destination rather similar to those opinions on ciao. I was expecting a bit more detail about destinations I searched and was also expecting the token picture or map but got none of these you get more information on excite classifieds or ciao. Services offered on this site are a map service but the maps are not very detailed and slow to load. Of course the token holiday advert. On the ... more
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