No surprise there. Lycos also runs the Point rating service and the A2Z directory. Point used to be an independent company and is one of the oldest rating services. It claims to list the top five per cent of all Web sites. Since 1996, however, the hype has died down.
Editors take submissions, but sites are added at their discretion.
There is no way to submit a site directly for review. The Open Text index has been in existence since at least early 1995. This engine has since been in decline as a major player. WebCrawler opened to the public on April 20, 1994. It was originally a research project at the University of Washington.