“We’re outsourcing the spidering and cataloging of the big search engine. With the number of people it requires, we can’t make a business out of spidering the entire Web.”
Lycos manager Lincoln Jackson, on the company’s abandonment of its proprietary Web-search technology (now, if it would only outsource brand development to someone else as well), Boston Globe, 19 June 2000
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