Lycos: Purpose

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Purpose

Lycos is a research program in providing information retrieval and discovery in the WWW, using a finite memory model of the web to guide intelligent, directed searches for specific information needs. Lycos currently implements basic information retrieval on rich abstracts of Web documents.

The next experiment is to add the ability to do best-first search starting with the finite document set to find specific topics. Until then, you can cast around using the search function.

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Last updated 01-Dec-94