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Lycos

Lycos is an Internet search engine and web directory. It was born from a research project by Dr. Michael Mauldin[?] of Carnegie Mellon University in 1994.

The name "Lycos" comes from Latin, meaning "wolf spider".

See also Google

External Links

http://www.lycos.com/ -- Lycos

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