Search Engines

http://www.lycos.com

Lycos -- receives about 4 million visits a day

Created by Dr. Michael Mauldin, Carnegie-Mellon University in 1994

http://www.yahoo.com/

Yahoo -- receives about 6 million visits a day

Created by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994

Name "Yahoo" is either corruption of "YangFilo" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"

http://www.infoseek.com/

InfoSeek -- receives about 4 million visits a day

Excite

WebCrawler

HotBot

AltaVista

MetaCrawler calls several other search engines and reports their collective results