Lycos Europe Switches to Fast

[NFFC]

"The agreement gives Lycos users access to a comprehensive Web search catalogue of over 400 million Web documents, with response times that average under one half second. Users will benefit from ongoing spidering which ensures a fresh index and highly relevant results."

More here [biz.yahoo.com]

Please Mr Fast let lycos.co.uk keep the directory as is, we are such great friends.

[The Yellow Brand]

Ongoing spidering ensures highly relevant results? It probably would if FAST could keep the spam out.

[Brett_Tabke]

I think this is big news. I was just there, and was surprised to find many of our .com sites ranking well. I've not looked at logs in a few days, so don't know how it is really playing yet.

[rencke]

The ranking algorithm seems to be based on two things only: The location and weight of the keyword in a) title b) first 100 bytes of text found on page (incl IMG ALT). Meta appears not to be used as far as I can see. This is so simple that Lycos is inviting abuse.

Try this at www.lycos.co.uk: Select "worldwide" and search for "sweden". Sheraton should be found as #6 on page one. Note the source code and know that "Sweden Hotels" is the name of their biggest competitor in this country. Jeez! SEO made easy.