Lycos

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Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS), a subsidiary of Brightcom Group, offers a search engine, web portal, chat service, domain name registration service, and email client. It was established in 1994 as a university spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University. Defunct external sites previously operated by Lycos included Angelfire, Chickmail, Chickpages, Estromail, Estropages, Gamesville, GetRelevant.com, Gurlmail, Gurlpages, Hotbot, InsiderInfo, Matchmaker.com, Quote.com and RagingBull.com, Tripod, Weather Zombie, Webon, Webmonkey, WhoWhere.com, and Wired.com. The name "Lycos" is short for "Lycosidae", which is Latin for "wolf spider".

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