Re: Lycos

["Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:52:03 -0500 (EST), James Love wrote:

>Looking at search engines today, I used Lycos to find Amazon Books.  I
>typed in Amazon Books and got back a page with a banner ad for
>Amazon.com, which will take you right there, but also, right at the top
>was:
>
>Related Topics:
>
>Books on Sale at Huge Discounts  (took me to BarnesandNobel.com)
>Shop for Books at BarnesandNoble.com 
>Web Site Reviews: amazon books
>Pictures: amazon books
>Personal Home Pages: amazon books
>BarnesandNoble.com Books: amazon books
>Yellow Pages: amazon books 
>
>   Next I tried to find travelocity, and it worked ok, but in the
>Related Topics menu, it gave me:
>
>BarnesandNoble.com Books: travelocity 
>
>    Which didn't make much sense to me.  
>
>   Jamie
>
>
>PS  I'm not sure what my point is.  
>
...

Are you trying to find Lycos "bugs", or perhaps corroborate
business associations, or perhaps truly search "The Web"?

If it's the latter I can help by suggesting you use a "real"
search engine like Profusion at:

   http://topaz.designlab.ukans.edu/profusion/

Best,
Erick