It has links with Yahoo. It searches for keywords as they occur in a page, but does not rank the search results in any order. Many thousands of hits may result if searches are not carefully structured. See Boolean Searching Tips for help. Anzwers Lycos Anzwers is an Australian search engine which ranks the search results.
Users have the option to choose to search only in Australia and to use a variety of types of search.
Around since May 1994, Lycos is one of the oldest of the major search engines. It began as a project at Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos lists sites in two main ways. Each guide is oriented around a subject area, such as News or Shopping. They list sites, along with links to other relevant material.