Lycos
Lycos's main strength is its depth of search results, which include the four most popular Web sites, determined by user-selection traffic and listed before other Web hits. Results may also yield links to related searches, news articles, or shopping sites. Search for a company and Lycos provides links to financial news, charts, and research; search for a music band and it will try to find you fan home pages, album reviews, and MP3 sites. A home page targeting search for Buffy the Vampire Slayer yielded links for multimedia, program guides, fan pages, and a Web directory of Buffy links.
Although its major strength may be all the additional links it provides, Lycos also did fairly well in our testing for relevant Web site results. The official Buffy home page, however, showed up fairly late in the regular Web page results. Boolean searches and other complex multiword queries work best. Don't bother using plus or minus signs, though. A search for truffles-chocolate served up quite a few chocolate-related results. Worse, lumped in with the popular results for online mortgages were two large ads for online casinos. Apparently what's popular isn't always what's relevant
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