S E A R C HF A R M
Resources to harvest
the bounty of the World Wide Web
| World
Wide Web Search:
| People
& Business Search:  Yahoo! Twin Cities is an excellent site for discovering things about the Twin Cities on the Web. The site has listed mp.ls in their City Guide Section. | Maps, Routes
& Directions: Internet
Discussion Miscellaneous
Search: |
| Why
is that search engine called "Yahoo!"? The
Answer: Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, however, says the founders picked it out of a dictionary. "We thought it fit well with what we were doing. It was irreverent, it was reflective of the Wild West nature of the Internet, and a lot of people found it easy to remember, which we thought was probably good." | Why
is that search engine called "Lycos"? The
Answer: A spider, for those of you who aren't familiar with Internet lingo, is a program used by search engines to index Web sites. So I guess that funny little name is appropriate after all. |
