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To: red_dog who wrote (13328)	8/3/1999 12:35:00 AM
From: Ron Dior	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Read the very bottom of this news release just sent out. They are starting to attach this to other related articles. Looks like this rumor could be for real! Tuesday August 3, 12:01 am Eastern Time ExciteAtHome to offer comprehensive Web search PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug 3 (Reuters) - Most Internet search engines reach some of the content on the World Wide Web some of the time. But on Tuesday ExciteAtHome (Nasdaq:ATHM - news) will announce a powerful new search engine that it says will be able to reach all the Web's hundreds of millions of pages. The company says the new service is easily twice as powerful as its existing search technology, which reaches less than half the content on the Web. Most competing services have also failed so far to capture the bulk of the vast quantities of material that are published on the Internet, meaning that Internet users get only a partial sampling of the online material existing on a given topic. ExciteAtHome, which will launch the new service in mid-August, says it will provide consumers more quality information than they have been able to receive to date. Currently the World Wide Web contains about 600 million pages of content, a figure that is rapidly growing and is expected to exceed 1 billion early next century. The new ExciteAtHome service is scalable and designed to keep up with this growth, the company said. ExciteAtHome plans to support its new search engine with efforts to simplify the search experience. Even though the existing search services are not comprehensive, they are extensive and often yield too many results for users to sort through. ExciteAtHome was recently formed through the merger of the popular portal Excite and AtHome Corp., which provides high-speed Internet access. AtHome paid $6.7 billion for Excite in a stock deal that was one of the highest-priced Internet mergers to date. Business Week Online reported on Monday that the popular Internet portal Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) was considering buying ExciteAtHome. Ron Dior