Lycos

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)