Lycos (Internet-Katalog) auf CD-ROM

[Thomas Hilberer <hilberer _at__ rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
da ich nun schon mehrfach um Informationen ueber Lycos auf CD-ROM gebeten 
wurde, anbei einige Hinweise (http siehe ganz unten).
Uebrigens ist seit kurzem die Online-Oberflaeche neu gestaltet worden.
Schoene Gruesse,
Thomas Hilberer


>Subject: Frontier Technologies licenses Lycos Internet Catalog software
>
>>              [Lycos, Inc. - The Catalog of the Internet]
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>>    7/24/95 - Frontier Technologies licenses Lycos Internet Catalog
>>                               software
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>> MEQUON, WIS. (July 24) BUSINESS WIRE -July 24, 1995--Frontier
>> Technologies Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement to
>> license the Lycos(TM) Internet Catalog.
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>> The Lycos Catalog has been incorporated into Frontier Technologies"
>> new SuperHighway Access product, called SuperHighway Access
>> CyberSearch(TM), which allows users to perform a Lycos search
>> offline via CD-ROM, connecting to the Internet only once relevant
>> Internet resources have been identified.
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>> The Lycos technology was developed at Carnegie Mellon University,
>> and was recently transferred to Lycos Inc., a newly-created
>> subsidiary of CMG Information Services Inc. Lycos is a software
>> system which contains a robot that searches the World Wide Web and
>> catalogs the documents it finds. It also includes an information
>> search engine that helps users access information quickly and easily
>> when they type in key words or topics. The Lycos exploration robot
>> locates new and changed documents and builds abstracts, which
>> consist of title, headings, subheadings, 100 most significant words
>> and the first 20 lines of the document. The catalog is continually
>> updated by the Lycos exploration agent. Frontier will receive
>> regular updates from Lycos Inc., allowing it to produce monthly
>> issues of SuperHighway Access CyberSearch.
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>> "It's now widely understood that one of the primary barriers to
>> users" productivity on the Internet is finding information," said
>> Dennis Freeman, Frontier Technologies" marketing director. "That's
>> why Internet search services like Lycos are among the Internet's
>> most popular sites."
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>> "Lycos Inc. is pleased to partner with Frontier as they contribute
>> to our continued position as the most widely used and most
>> comprehensive catalog product on the Web," said Bob Davis, CEO of
>> Lycos Inc.
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>> The product, now shipping, consists of a 608-megabyte subset of the
>> Lycos catalog, indexing about half a million web pages, integrated
>> with Frontier's multi-session, multi-protocol Internet browser
>> software. The product is shipped on CD-ROM and is available through
>> Frontier's reseller channel. The CD will be updated monthly
>> (bi-monthly initially)
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>> Frontier is offering the first issue of CyberSearch at $14.95. A
>> charter subscription for 6 issues is priced at $6.75 per month.
>> Subscribers should call 1-800/879-0075 (+1-414/571-0190 outside the
>> U.S.) or access Frontier's web server, http://www.frontiertech.com
>> for further information.
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>> Lycos Inc., with offices in Wilmington, Mass. and Pittsburgh, Penn.,
>> is the newly formed corporation based upon technology developed at
>> Carnegie Mellon University.
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>> Frontier Technologies Corp., based in Mequon, is a leading supplier
>> of TCP/IP and Internet-based products that make businesses more
>> competitive in a global market.
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>> CONTACT:
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>>      Frontier Technologies Corp., Mequon
>>      Nicole Rogers, 414/241-4555 x293
>>      or
>>      Lycos Inc.
>>      Mike Olfe, 508/657-5050 x3124
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>
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