Lycos
= Lycos
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Lycos is one of the early web search engines and web portals that was launched in 1994. Initially, it was developed as a search tool for indexing academic resources but quickly evolved into a general-purpose search engine. At its peak in the mid to late 1990s, Lycos was one of the most popular search engines, competing with others like AltaVista and Yahoo!.