This one has me really hot under the collar. Excite and now Lycos do not utilize meta-tag descriptions or keywords in their indexing. The result is that if a designer wants to have their site indexed in any rational with these engines they must design sites in pretty much one way only. Gif text is out.
Creativity is out.
And so it goes. All your important keywords MUST be at the top of the page or must be repeated a number of times throughout the page. You must not put a menu bar at the top of the page or else Lycos will use that as your site description. You must not think in visual terms. That's the way it should be.