Lycos

n. American company headquartered in Massachusetts, owner and operator of several Internet services (including the Lycos and Hotbot search engines)

Lycos is a search engine and web portal centered around broadband entertainment content. It began as a search engine research project by Dr. Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. It was incorporated in 1995 and went on to become one of the most visited online destinations in the world with a global presence in more than 40 countries. Lycos merged with Terra Networks of Spain in May of 2000, forming a new company, Terra Lycos, creating one of the world's largest Internet companies. In Oct. 2004, Lycos was sold a second time to Daum Communications Corporation, the 2nd largest Internet portal in Korea, becoming Lycos, Inc. Lycos remains a top 25 Internet destination in the US, and the 13th largest online property worldwide according to comScore Media Metrix. Lycos also remains a top 5 Internet portal, behind Yahoo, MSN, AOL and MySpace (comScore Media Metrix).
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<World-Wide Web> A World-Wide Web index, served by Carnegie Mellon University. It allows you to search on document title and content for a list of keywords. Lycos is probably the biggest such index on the web. By April 1995, the Lycos database contained 2.95 million unique documents.
The Lycos database is built by a Web crawler that can bring in 5000 documents per day. The index searches document title, headings, links, and keywords it locates in these documents.
The Lycos servers are efficient but overloaded. Failure to connect or "please try later" messages are common.
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