Excite goes direct with DELL.
Bob:
Lot of news this morning ,eh? Yahoooooooooo!!!!!!
Excite Goes Direct With Dell Deal
Company Teams With PC Leader to Give Dell Customers Immediate Personalized Internet Experience
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT - news) today announced a relationship with Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL - news) to provide Excite's personalized start page for Dell's new ConnectDirect(SM) initiative. ConnectDirect will give Dell consumers and business customers fast access to the Internet with a customized experience using Excite as the portal. With this relationship, Excite is delivering its award-winning personalization, navigation, and community services for Dell's customers worldwide.
As part of the arrangement between Dell and Excite, each individual Dell Dimension desktop personal computer shipped will connect the customer to a personalized Excite start page at www.dell.excite.com, giving consumers a fast and easy Internet experience that can be tailored for them. The initiative between the system manufacturer and the portal is powerful because it provides an immediate relationship with the customer, Dell, and Excite.
''This is a very significant distribution deal for us,'' said George Bell, CEO of Excite. ''Excite is diversifying the ways it reaches consumers, and being allied with Dell at the consumers' point of entry onto the Internet is an important means to that end. With Dell's leadership in direct sales, we have a unique opportunity to leverage their understanding of the consumer with our understanding of the Web to create a personalized Excite experience.''
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