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lycos

lycos

 

  1  definition  found 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Lycos 
 
    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. 
 
  {Home  (http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/)} 
 
  (1995-04-06)