Lycos
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Lycos is an Internet search engine and web directory. It was born from a research project by Dr. Michael Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University(CMU) in 1994. The original Lycos search engine went on to be used in Carnegie Mellon's Informedia Digital Library project.
The name "Lycos" comes from Latin, lycosidae, meaning "wolf spider".
Shortly after the development of the Lycos Search Engine, the Lycos company was formed using venture capital and initial internal support from CMU. The CEO of the Lycos company was Bob Davies (internet businessman) , a native of Boston who moved the headquarters of Lycos to Waltham, Massachusetts from Pittsburgh, and concentrated on building it into an advertising supported Web Portal, arguably at the expense of the Information Retrieval research on which the company was founded.
Lycos suffered under competition from Google, which concentrated on driving its business primarily on the basis of fast, effective web search, but remains a viable business as of early 2004.
The Lycos company was eventually purchased by Terra SA, a subsidiary of the Spanish telephone company [[Telef�nica]], and renamed Terra Lycos.
See also
Google, List of Wikipedia articles based upon websites
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- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Lycos" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycos, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
