Buy, Bid or Bargain? Excite Offers Integrated Internet Shopping Search to Give Users Powerful Web Shopping Opportunities
Excite Allows Consumers to Power Shop on the Web With the Integration Of Auctions and Classifieds Listings to its Shopping Agent, Excite Product Finder
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention all Shoppers -- Excite Product Finder powered by Jango, Excite's intelligent shopping agent, has integrated auctions and classifieds listings to its online shopping search, Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT - news) announced today. The integration gives consumers searching for a specific item on the Web fast, easy and comprehensive results and the choice to buy from online stores, bid in Internet auctions and bargain with people listing goods for sale in Web classifieds.
Continuing to give searchers revolutionary results, Excite is the first company to integrate auction sites and classifieds listings into its shopping search. Excite Product Finder powered by Jango is available through a direct link under the main search box on www.excite.com or in the Excite Shopping Channel.
So You Want Beanie Babies?
For example, a user interested in finding Beanie Babies golden retriever named Fetch, can run a Product Finder search by entering the name or type of Beanie Babies into the name/description box and choosing to search stores, auction sites and classified listings, or any combination of the three. Results include almost 200 listings of purchase opportunities at online stores, bidding opportunities for auctions in progress and current Web classifieds listings. The user can also choose to sort results by price or type of purchase opportunity.
''By integrating auction sites and classifieds listings into Excite Product Finder, we can give consumers more control over their online shopping experience,'' said David Sze, vice president, network programming and content, Excite, Inc. ''We're committed to making it as easy as possible for people to find, research and compare products and buying opportunities online.''
The first Excite Product Finder category to search auctions and classified listings, in addition to online stores is Beanie Babies, found in the Games & Toys category. Excite will aggressively integrate auction sites and classifieds listings into additional categories of Excite Product Finder, beginning with popular categories including computer software, computer hardware and video games. Additionally, Excite Product Finder results will be integrated into Excite's enhanced main search results pages, giving consumers answers to specific product questions.
Excite Product Finder powered by Jango contains 30 categories and an easy-to-use interface that includes text fields and pull-down menus to make product searches as targeted or as broad as users choose. Product finder utilizes more than 500 unbiased, non-promotional merchants and information sources to give consumers easy access to up-to-date information from a wide assortment of online stores, auction outlets, classified listings and product research and review sites.
About Excite, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Excite, Inc. is a global media company offering consumers a personalized Web start page on www.excite.com and a ''back to basics'' Web search service on www.webcrawler.com, and advertisers the best one-to-one marketing services available online. The Excite Network consists of two of the largest brands on the Web, Excite (www.excite.com) and WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com), and its subsidiaries; Classifieds2000, MatchLogic, Inc., Excite Japan Co., Ltd. and Excite UK, Ltd. Localized versions of Excite are available in France, Germany, the UK, The Netherlands, Sweden, Japan and Australia. Based in Redwood City, Calif., Excite, Inc. has strategic relationships with America Online, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., CUC Investments Inc., Intuit Inc. [Nasdaq:INTU - news], Netscape Communications Corp. [Nasdaq:NSCP - news], Prodigy Internet and Tribune Company [NYSE:TRB - news].
NOTE: Beanie Babies is a registered trademark of Ty Inc.
SOURCE: Excite, Inc.
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