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Lycos is one of the oldest search
engines on the Internet today, next to Altavista and Yahoo! Well,
Yahoo isn't technically a search engine, it is a directory, but
you get my point. Their spider, named "T-Rex", crawls
the web and provides updates to the Lycos index from time to time.
The FAST crawler ( FAST-WebCrawler/2.2-pre27 (crawler@fast.no; http://www.fast.no/faq/faqfastwebsearch/
faqfastwebcrawler.html), over at the Alltheweb
engine, provides results for Lycos in addition to its own database.
T-Rex, the Lycos spider, has not been active for several months
now, so the current best bet to get into Lycos is submitting to
the Alltheweb
directory.
The Lycos crawler does not weigh
META tags to heavily, instead it relies on its own ranking algorithm
to rank pages returned in results. The URL, META title, text headings,
and word frequency are just a few of the methods Lycos uses to rank
pages. Lycos does support pages with Frame content, however any
page that isn't at least 75 words in content is not indexed.
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