Great find. From the host's reference to Excite's debut "a month ago", this must be from May 1996. There was a window of time where Excite's in-house search re

Great find. From the host's reference to Excite's debut "a month ago", this must be from May 1996. There was a window of time where Excite's in-house search results were noticeably the best, even without having the largest index. I think they had done something, with either inlink-anchor-text on inlink-counts, for the first time. While the In The Plex anecdote makes Excite CEO Bell seem foolish, compared to the CNBC hosts Bell had a brilliant understanding of the opportunity. (And that's not to insult the CNBC hosts, either: they were just channeling the thoughts of their skeptical viewers.)