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It's an internet company in the same vein as Yahoo and AOL (a hub for news, weather, etc). It peaked in popularity around the late 90s, early 00s. I almost said that it has since shut down but I just checked and, surprisingly, it's still up today: http://msxml.excite.com/

The normal URL is more indicative of what it was like:

http://excite.com/

Noscript advice from that site:

"Tried everything and still can't sign in? It could be due to one of these issues: Your computer's clock may be set ahead 10 years or more."

Mmm, sort of.

It's pretty amazing that it's almost the same look that was the final iteration before the bankruptcy.

Its so ugly. I hate that shade of yellow in their colour scheme

Wow it still looks like it did, essentially, a decade ago.

It's like Yahoo! on steroids...

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