LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Lycos: Fast Web
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Lycos is one of the oldest search engines. Lycos was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University to calculate the size of the web using a "spider" robot program that walked around the Internet from site to site through page links.
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Lycos Europe or third parties can create links to other web pages ('sites') or sources. Lycos Europe has no means of control whatsoever at its disposal for such sites and sources and it is not responsible or liable for the availability of such external sites or sources. It does not admit contents which are accessible on such sites or from such sources and it excludes any liability or warranty regarding them, insofar as no positive knowledge of the content's illegality exists. The links and search results in particular, are mainly generated by automatic processes and they cannot by checked by Lycos Europe's employees in any way, on account of their large number. In the event that a link to an external page is found on Lycos Europe pages - which is disseminating illegal contents from third party pages - then Lycos Europe will remove the link to such a page, with appropriate advice.
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As of April 1, 2004, Lycos dropped the use of the FAST (AlltheWeb) database and now uses Yahoo!'s database. Many of the advanced features listed below are now gone. Up to ten LookSmart directory hits still show up first.
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The name Lycos comes from Lycosidae, the scientific name for the "wolf spider". Wolf spiders are excellent hunters that catch their prey by running after it instead of catching it in a web. They are named "wolf" spiders because people once mistakenly thought that they hunted in packs.
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