(http://www.lycos.com)
Summary of Features
| Coverage | General Web pages, sounds (available on the Web), pictures (from the same source), top 5% Web sites, personal homepages (as a distinct set). Not included in the indexes are the news and other resources included in the directory, which includes a wide variety of information sources. |
| Size of index | 100 million of URLs |
| Extent of indexing | Full-text (minus stop words), images, sounds, links, and titles |
| Levels of searching | Lycos has three levels of search: 1- Basic search; 2 - Advanced search or Lycos Pro; 3 - Lycos Pro with Java Panel |
| Implied Boolean | YES. The implied Boolean connector is OR. |
| Simple Boolean | YES. Includes the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT. |
| Proximity searching | YES. Use the operators NEAR, FAR, ONEAR, OFAR, ADJ, OADJ, and BEFORE |
| Nesting (parenthesis for complex searches) | YES |
| Capitalization recognition | YES. Use the symbol $ to truncate. |
| Ignores stop words? | NO. |
| Media type search | YES. Use - to exclude words and + to require words |
| Display of results | NO. Not in the sense of setting up a permanent personal template. However, different search options are available |