Lycos: Documentation

See also: News Purpose Specifics Results Documentation

Slides

• Lycos briefing slides in one file

• Lycos briefing slides as separate GIFs:
  • Lycos searches Webspace
  • Lycos Catalog is valuable resource
  • Lycos is a popular WWW tool

Conference papers

• ``Web-Agent Related Research at the CMT,'', Mauldin & Leavitt, Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (SIGNIDR) August 1994 (slides for SIGNIDR-94 talk).

Archives

• Description of the Lycos Project, June 6, 1994
• Announcement of the search engine, July 20, 1994
• Lycos has new location, August 26, 1994

Posts to NetNews are archived here:

• Announcement on comp.infosystems.announce, August 14, 1994

Articles describing Lycos:

• ``New Spiders Roam the Web,'', John December, Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, 1(5), Sep. 1, 1994.

Etymology

Click here to see a picture of Lycosa kochii.

Click here to see a picture of the Lycos project mascot.

Related Information

The Robots mailing list is for discussion of issues related to automated Web searching programs.

My list of Web critters.

Acknowledgments

Some of the hardware used by Lycos was originally purchased with funds provided by ARPA for the Tipster phase I program, and Michael Mauldin is partially supported by ARPA's CS-TR project. The pursuit search engine is also being ported for the Informedia (tm) Digital Video Library project.

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