Lycos, Inc. is a search engine and web portal established in 1994.

One of Rog-O-Matic's authors, Michael Loren Mauldin, would go on to write the Lycos search engine.

* 26 July: A variant of Mydoom attacks Google, AltaVista and Lycos, completely stopping the function of the popular Google search engine for the larger portion of the workday, and creating noticeable slow-downs in the AltaVista and Lycos engines for hours.

The resulting categories and profiles were downloaded at intervals by LookSmart and its partners, other search companies such as MSN, Lycos, and Altavista, for use in their own systems with or without modification.

HotBot is a web search engine currently owned by Lycos.

In the beta, HotBot became a portal, returning not just web search results, but also searches from various Lycos websites, such as News, Shopping and Weather Zombie.

But this lasted for only a month, and these features were dragged back to the Lycos website, and HotBot stayed as a web search engine.

In early 2004 Lycos launched a beta release of a free toolbar search product, Lycos HotBot DeskTop, which the company said was " the first product to integrate traditional desktop search with Web search within the browser.

Lycos licensed dtSearch technology to power the local search options.

In January 2002, search engine Lycos reported that her name was among the most searched terms.

discovery, organization, and search and indexing tools of the Internet and the World Wide Web such as Lycos, Alta Vista,

Lycos Europe was a pan-European network of websites, offering services including communication tools, online communities, web search, e-commerce, web hosting, homepage building and Internet access.

Lycos Europe sold further businesses: the news search Paperball was taken over by Paperball GmbH, Munich.

The image search services developed and provided by Picsearch power several major Internet companies, such as Lycos.

She has two children ( now adults ): Bill Townsend a technology entrepreneur — cofounder of the Lycos search engine, and board member at Newegg. com and Amati Foundation, and Kelly Rostic, a former anchorwoman with NBC and Fox.

The site was bought by Mountain View, California – based WhoWhere in 1997, which was itself subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos in 1998.

Before joining Cycorp, he was a principal scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge-based approaches to understanding Web user behavior ; he has also been associated with Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center and the Informedia Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon.

The TOP 5 % logoTOP 5 % of all Web Sites was a web directory run by Lycos that aimed to review, categorize and award the top 5 % of all websites.

This essentially marked the end of Hotwired's presence on the Web as Lycos turned the site into an archive.

In 1998, Lycos paid $ 58 million ($ million today ) for Tripod in an attempt to " break into the portal market.

In April 2000, Terra surprised the internet market with the acquisition of Lycos, the U. S. portal, in a stock swap valued at US $ 12. 5 billion.

By that time, Lycos was the third most visited portal in the U. S., according to Nielsen // NetRatings, and had a strong presence in key European and Asian markets.

In October 2004, following Telefónica's decision to re-focus their businesses, Terra sold Lycos to South Korean Internet portal company Daum Communications for US $ 105 million.

In 2000, she worked with the now-defunct web portal Lycos Asia to pen an e-novella.

Sold assets included the sale of the Danish portal Jubii, the Lycos Chat-worldsbiggestchat ( which at the time was both the Lycos & Yahoo Chat in Europe ) was transferred to the new operator Noesis Systems Ltd, on March 9, 2009 and later rebranded as the Noesis Chat, Love @ Lycos was sold to a Swedish company.

* Ark ( search engine ), a people search engine

* BASE ( search engine ), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Sogou Pinyin is a popular Chinese Pinyin input method editor developed by Sogou, a Chinese search engine.

* ITA Software's low fare search engine, used by travel websites such as Orbitz and Kayak. com and airlines such as American Airlines, Continental Airlines and US Airways.

* kobesearch. cpan. org Randy Kobes ' search engine ( linked to by cpan. org )

* MetaCPAN: a free, open CPAN search engine

* Readily available search engine boxes: Research shows that users are quick to seek immediate results through the use of a search engine box.

If one knows the actual URL of a website that features sexual explicit or 18 + content, they have the ability to access it without using a search engine.

Amazon was spending on expanding customer base and alerting people to its existence and Google was busy spending on creating more powerful machine capacity to serve its expanding search engine.

* IGO Search: IGO / NGO google custom search engine built by the Govt Documents Round Table ( GODORT ) of the American Library Association.

* The dataset maintained by search engine indexing

*: Emanuel Goldberg submits patents for his " Statistical Machine ” a document search engine that used photoelectric cells and pattern recognition to search the metadata on rolls of microfilmed documents.

* A search engine for exon / intron sequences defined by NCBI

* Index term, a term used as a keyword to retrieve documents in an information system such as a catalog or a search engine

* Hotbot, a Lycos-owned search engine

* WhoWhere. com, a people search engine

* MUDseek: Google custom search engine indexing MUD and MUD-related web sites.