Within the search results page, Lycos also provides matching Web sites from Tripod featuring personal homepages from like-minded surfers. This new image gallery contains hundreds of categories that users frequently seek such as sports scenes, film stars and super models. With today s announcement, Lycos has the best search and directory infrastructure and begins a 100 day roll-out of products and features that set new standards for relevancy, accuracy, and quality of user interface. The WiseWire technology finds, prioritizes, and organizes relevant content from the Internet into thousands of pre-defined hierarchical directories. These directories, which are based on thousands of categories, allow Lycos users to teach the system which sites they like and don't like using simple rating buttons.
Sites continually bubble up or down based on user preference.
Quickly and automatically, the system learns which sites are popular within a particular topic and populates that category with dynamic, real-time content. This marriage of machine and end-user helps shape, define and classify the Internet, delivering users a quality search results page with top notch results that is virtually free of dead links. Finally, users can immediately click to Tripod member homepages with Titanic content such as movie reviews, fan pages or historical data. WiseWire Corporation, The Content Agent Company SM, is a leader in delivering targeted content to Web sites and intranets. WiseWire's technology integrates seamlessly with large directory and Web guide sites, promotional and publishing Web sites, and corporate intranets.