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Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.
Lycos acquired HotBot as part of its acquisition of Wired in October 1998 and it was run separately, alongside Lycos's already existing search engine. Hereafter, HotBot languished with limited development and falling market share. A HotBot NeoPlanet browser was also released which integrated HotBot and other Wired and Lycos links.
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- WebCrawler. WebCrawler started life in January 1994. Designed by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington, it was originally a desktop app. It wasn't until April of the same year that the web version went live.
- Lycos. Lycos is another old-school search engine that still has a functioning site. It was born out of Carnegie Mellon University in May 1994 when creator Michael Loren Mauldin turned his university project into a full-fledged company.
- AltaVista. AltaVista went live in December 1995 and quickly became one of the most popular search engines in the 1990s. Its popularity was down to the search engine's design; it was the first fully searchable, full-text database on the web that had an accessible and easy-to-use interface.
- Excite. Excite is another of the oldest search engines. It was founded in 1994, with the site officially launching the following year. The creators were six students from Stanford University—Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark VanHaren, Ryan McIntyre, Ben Lutch, and Martin Reinfried.
Hotbot, a search engine; InsiderInfo; Lycos Radio, allowed users to create and host their own free Internet radio shows; Matchmaker.com, a dating site; Quote.com and RagingBull.com, finance sites; Weather Zombie, a Lycos property which provided weather forecasts, with a zombie theme, via AccuWeather; Webmonkey, web-building help and tutorials
Dec 2, 2008 · Lycos Revives Classic 1990's HotBot Search Interface. I was thinking about HotBot today. The site used to be a really rocking search engine. It was part of the mighty Wired.com empire back in...
Jan 3, 2002 · That's why search engine HotBot is the crown jewel for Lycos in its planned $83 million acquisition of Wired Digital . The move signifies another step in Lycos's overall strategy to...
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Jul 22, 2015 · A few months later, in April 1999, Lycos stopped using WiseWire, and flipped both Lycos and Hotbot—two of the biggest search engines on the internet—to the Open Directory Project.
