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Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS), is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Ybrant Digital.
Michael Loren "Fuzzy" Mauldin (/ ˈ m ɔː l d ən /) (born March 23, 1959) is an American retired computer scientist and the inventor of the Lycos web search engine. He has written 2 books, 10 refereed papers, and several technical reports on natural-language processing, autonomous information agents, information retrieval, and expert systems.
The WebCrawler search engine, created by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington, is released. [14] Unlike its predecessors, it allows users to search for any word in any webpage, which has become the standard for all major search engines since. July: New web search engine: Lycos, a web search engine, is released. [14]
The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization (alternatively viewed as a ...
Search engines, including web search engines, ... Metasearch engine and Kagi Inc : Lycos: Multilingual Microsoft Bing : MetaCrawler: English Metasearch engine:
Bill Townsend (born c. 1965) [1] is an entrepreneur who helped launch several leading Internet companies including search engine Lycos, social networking site SixDegrees, now LinkedIn, GeoCities (sold to Yahoo!) and Deja.com (sold to Google and eBay).
Michael Loren Mauldin (born 1959), founder of Lycos search engine Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
The Lycos search engine was an early product of the Informedia Digital Library Project. The project is led by Howard Wactlar. Researchers on the project have included: Michael Mauldin, Alex Hauptmann, Michael Christel, Michael Witbrock, Raj Reddy, Takeo Kanade and Scott Stevens.