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Tips For Lycos:
Lycos is another one of those search engines after the big bucks. Their network includes HotBot.com, Tripod.com, Angelfire.com, MyTime.com and a bunch more.
Lycos does look at your META Tags, but places more weight in the full text of your document. You should place Keywords at the start of your page. Are you using a lot of punctuation in your document? This may be part of the reason you're not showing up where you think you should. Lycos is punctuation intolerant. Don't use punctuation in the URL either. This is a guaranteed way not to be indexed by Lycos.
You may submit more than one URL from your site as long as the URLs represent distinct Web pages. Multiple pages that contain the same content will not be added.
General Information:
Around since May 1994, Lycos is one of the oldest of the major search engines. It began as a project at Carnegie Mellon University. The name Lycos comes from the Latin for "wolf spider."
Lycos lists sites in two main ways. There are search engine listings, and there is an associated directory called "Web Guides". Sites are automatically listed in these using technology from WiseWire, a company Lycos acquired in early 1998.
Lycos also runs a rating service called Top 5%. These are reviews of what's best on the Web. Reviews can be browsed or searched, and they can be sorted by review date, content, design, overall experience or alphabetical order.
Top 5% was originally called Point. Point was an independent company and one of the oldest Web rating services. It launched in 1995 and aimed to list what its editors considered to be the top 5% of all Web sites. Lycos acquired the service and later changed the name.
Rankings Priority Rundown:
1. Lycos looks for pages that mention these words early on, rather than far down in some sub-section of the site.
2. Higher priority for keywords that appear in the page TITLE
3. Higher priority for keywords that are closer to the top of the page
4. Higher priority for the number of sites linking to you
Special Tips:
The Lycos spider T-Rex will index more than one URL from your site as long as the URLs represent distinct Web pages. Multiple pages that contain the same content will not be added. The Lycos spider will try to travel through links contained in the Web page you submit. A good rule of thumb is to count on the Spider traveling down one level from the page you submit.
Lycos indexes META Tags, but they are just more text on the page to Lycos. Searches are case insensitive. It will use image ALT Tags.
Our Evaluation:
(Summary. strong points, weaknesses, criticism, recommendations to users etc.)
Lycos offers much additional material around their Internet search system. They put their emphasis on all the junk (advertisers), with information on preselected topics, suggestions, commercial information and advertisments, which raises the question of objectivity.
They offer relatively few advanced search options (no full boolean search, no limitation to specific fields, no support of search improvement). They give insufficient information about the service, like size and content of the database. The interface is relatively unclear. There is a mixture of different offers, advertisment etc. The database does not seem to be very up-to-date.

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