Lycos has patent on spider technology

[Andrew Wohrley, Science & Technology Referen]

A news item just stated that Lycos has just been granted a patent on 
spider technology for searching the web.

This sounds like it would have a fairly dramatic impact on Alta 
Vista, Excite, Inktomi, etc.

Andrew Wohrley
Science & Technology Department
Auburn University Libraries
http://www.auburn.edu/~wohrlaj
wohrlaj at lib.auburn.edu