http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/lycos-news.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
5,077,834 unique URLs, including 1,177,750 documents fetched totaling 8,703,484,067 bytes 3,900,084 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,834,323,446 bytes of Lycos summaries 1,078,127,917 bytes of inverted index
July 5th, 1995 Latest catalog: The newest big catalog contains 4.49 million URLs, including 1,015,129 files downloaded.
4,494,606 unique URLs, including 1,015,129 documents fetched totaling 8,099,449,230 bytes 3,479,477 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,623,591,994 bytes of Lycos summaries 954,141,839 bytes of inverted index
June 28, 1995 Latest catalog: The newest big catalog contains 4.37 million URLs, including 995,700 files downloaded.
995,700 documents fetched totaling 7,977,510,453 bytes 3,383,556 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,596,689,211 bytes of Lycos summaries 937,708,006 bytes of inverted index
June 21, 1995 Latest catalog: The newest big catalog contains 4.24 million URLs, including 973,496 files downloaded.
973,496 documents fetched totaling 7,717,290,137 bytes 3,263,868 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,559,945,383 bytes of Lycos summaries 915,571,478 bytes of inverted index
June 15, 1995 Latest catalog: The newest big catalog contains 3.74 million URLs, including 873,725 files downloaded.
873,725 documents fetched totaling 6,953,405,386 bytes 2,868,735 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,364,723,172 bytes of Lycos summaries 799,958,615 bytes of inverted indexJune 9, 1995 New MORE feature: You can now see the next page of hits by clicking on the Next N Hits text at the end of your search.
June 7, 1995 Latest catalog: The newest big catalog contains 3.42 million URLs, including 810,405 files downloaded. The small catalog contains 505,748 documents.
810,405 documents fetched totaling 6,503,778,191 bytes 2,614,573 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,244,820,271 bytes of Lycos summaries 729,020,137 bytes of inverted index
May 31th, 1995 Latest catalog: The newest big catalog contains 3.26 million URLs, including 740,000 files downloaded. I have just removed over a million short abstracts for documents that hadn't been seen since February of 1995. The small catalog contains 783,000 documents.
May 9th, 1995 NlightN licenses Lycos: We've issued a non-exclusive license for Lycos to Library Corp. of Reston, Virginia, for use in their NlightN service. For more information, check the NlightN home page.
May 8th, 1995 New catalog:
The newest catalog contains 3,856,595 unique
URLs found between Nov. 21 and May 7th (including 676,478
documents actually retrieved).
676,478 documents fetched totaling 5,429,288,135 bytes 3,180,117 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,235,096,592 bytes of Lycos summaries 737,881,357 bytes of inverted index
May 1st, 1995 New catalog:
The newest catalog contains 3,755,538 unique
URLs found between Nov. 21 and April 30th (including 656,665
documents actually retrieved).
656,665 documents fetched totaling 5,285,718,194 bytes 3,098,873 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,235,096,592 bytes of Lycos summaries 716,101,271 bytes of inverted index
April 25th, 1995 New catalog:
The newest catalog contains 3,592,966 unique
URLs found between Nov. 21 and April 23rd (including 631,156
documents actually retrieved).
631,156 documents fetched totaling 5,086,069,554 bytes 2,961,810 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,189,617,967 bytes of Lycos summaries 690,024,686 bytes of inverted index
April 23, 1995 New FAQs:
We've added questions about the size of the web and our relationship
to Microsoft to the
List of frequently asked questions about Lycos
April 19, 1995 Microsoft licenses Lycos: We've issued a non-exclusive license for Lycos to Microsoft. For more details, check the press release.
April 18th, 1995 New catalog:
The newest catalog contain 3,338,450 unique
URLs found between Nov. 21 and April 4 (including 593,437
documents actually retrieved).
593,437 documents fetched totaling 4,785,354,515 bytes 2,745,013 unexplored URLs with descriptions 1,110,709,108 bytes of Lycos summaries 645,444,366 bytes of inverted index
April 8th, 1995 New catalog:
The newest catalog contains 2,958,318 unique
URLs found between Nov. 21 and April 4 (including 515,776
documents actually retrieved).
515,776 documents fetched totaling 4,085,191,059 bytes 2,442,542 unexplored URLs with descriptions 968,310,868 bytes of Lycos summaries 562,193,771 bytes of inverted index
Note that catalog updates will be delayed a week for the World Wide Web Conference.
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