Infoseek ranks its results with numerical scores based on the frequency of queries. Lycos Lycos' search engine spider, 1-Rex, crawls the Web looking for new information. Once Lycos finds a new site, it creates a title and description for each page of the site from the text of the page. The keywords of a Web page also are chosen by the spider. The Lycos index gives a higher priority to keywords that appear in a page's title, for keywords appearing toward the top of a page, and for the proximity of the keywords.
Priority also is based on the number of sites linking to a page.
It then lists your results with the most relevant ones at the top of the page. Below that URL are links to one or more individual pages containing text matching your search expression. Lycos has some great tools for sorting your search results. Compares the number of times a word appears in a given document to the average number of times it appears in the rest of the searched documents. The title text in a Web page is given emphasis.