It has a different name and a different look, but it is basically Excite underneath. In Europe, Lycos provides the results in the same manner as Excite. AOL NetFind launched in March 1997. AltaVista is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed. Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of power searching commands makes it a particular favorite among researchers.
Advertisers can also pay to be listed higher within the service.
AltaVista opened in December 1995. Excite is one of the most popular search services on the web. Excite was launched in late 1995. It grew quickly in prominence and consumed two of its competitors, Magellan in July 1996, and WebCrawler in November 1996. These continue to run as separate services.