DISNEY STRIKES WEB DEAL.Byline: Dave McNary Daily News Staff Writer Entertainment giant Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co., ramping up its Internet presence, announced Thursday it has formed an alliance with World Wide Web search specialist Excite Inc. The deal means Excite, the second-most popular search site after Yahoo!, will provide seamless access to parts of Disney's four major Web sites - Disney.com, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Sports Zone, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. .com and ABCNEWS.com. The agreement should go into effect by the end of the month. Financial terms of the deal, which is nonexclusive, were not disclosed. Spokeswomen for both companies declined to comment on whether Disney had agreed to buy a stake in Excite, a development that had drawn extensive speculation recently. The alliance falls short of Disney Chairman Michael Eisner's goal of making the entertainment giant a ``gatekeeper'' on the Internet but it should boost Disney's cyberspace presence significantly. Excite generates traffic of 40 million page views daily and has been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to attract more users, resulting in a bigger audience for advertisers. The deal comes as competition has been heating up among Yahoo!, Excite and other operators of major hubs for Web traffic such as Microsoft Corp., America Online See AOL. Inc., Lycos Inc. and Infoseek Corp. |
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