Lycos Search Announcement

Posted to robots@nexor.co.uk on July 20, 1994

Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 13:42:39 EDT
From: Michael Mauldin 
To: bb-cmu-comp-infosystems-www@CRABAPPLE.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: Lycos WWW Searcher now available

Lycos now supports searches of its database of WWW documents. Please access the search page from the Lycos Home Page

	lycos-home.html

Because once this service becomes popular, I will probably move the index and search server to another computer.

The very first anchor in the Lycos Home Page is the SEARCH.

Lycos' database was collected during June, and contains summaries of 54,000 documents (about 41meg of summaries).

Current plans are

1. Add the 250,000 documents for which I have only descriptions to the search database.
2. Resume Lycos exploration. Lycos has not been fetching documents since June.
3. Experiment with best-first search.
4. Release a copy of the PURSUIT search engine for educational and research use. PURSUIT provides HTML formatted search results from (almost) arbitrary text files. It is suitable for running via CGI from httpd. If you would like to be a beta tester for PURSUIT, please send email to fuzzy@cmu.edu

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