Countless web users are already acquainted with Excite, the European web portal which offers the latest in search on anything from travel and shopping to news and finance. But the site has just taken its offerings a bit further with the launch of its new Excite MIX personalized homepage feature. The redesigned web portal shows users how to make the most of RSS and to receive real-time content from their favourite sites. For instance, anyone can create a personalised homepage by integrating their favourite content from the web via RSS feeds, as well as receive the latest news from preferred sites in real time. But that's not all: Excite users also have access to a new shopping comparison service, as well as an improved mail system - Excite Mail - which includes podcasting as well as options that allow you to increase your storage space.
Moreover, Excite is making job hunting easier than ever: the web portal has just teamed up with Workcircle to launch its job search engine. The new service gives users access to over 200,000 UK jobs on the Workcircle network. It also allows users to receive the latest job announcements directly onto their Excite MIX personalised pages as they're announced, via RSS feeds.
Bernhard Berger, Business Development Manager, Excite UK, commented:
"Excite is a stylishly designed portal with a host of relevant, useful content and services. A slick, simple service to assist jobseekers is a perfect match for us and Workcircle made it easy and very quick to launch the new channel. Users will be delighted with the new service and can start benefiting from access to the latest jobs for 2007 immediately."
Workcircle CEO Simon Appleton added:
"Partnering with high-profile brands to help them generate revenue from job sites is a key part of our strategy. Excite was an obvious first partner, with an existing under-utilised jobs section, and a team keen to provide the very best services to their users."
Another fruit of the re-design project is the informative Excite MIX blog, Web Twitcher, which offers tips on how to customise MIX and keep up-to-date with the web world.
The site was clearly designed with the needs of UK users in mind, and looks likely to see an increase in its current turnout of five million unique users per month. After all, users can now search the web, view favourite content, check email and construct subject specific pages from a single location. The portal has all the features expected from a high quality site, plus the distinctive trimmings that make Excite one of the leading brands in the UK online consumer market.
