our leap into cyberspace than you were when you started. That's the problem robot-built catalogs lik
e Lycos are meant to solve.
Frontier Technologies has integrated the "small" Lycos catalog (about 500,000 World Wide Web pages) with its browser to enable you to run searches off-line. The small Lycos catalog consists of Web pages that Lycos has had time to analyze and abstract. The large catalog, the one you search when you access Lycos directly, includes the small catalog and link information for about 9.5 million other uniform resource locators (URLs) for which abstracts have yet to be created.
The centerpiece of the browser is an Internet Organizer with 49 folders, which have interesting pages, and a search folder, into which your own search results appear as bookmarks. You can move bookmarks or deposit them directly into preexisting folders, create new folders for them, and copy or move them from one folder to another. The search form is simple: Type in your search terms and go. You can't do anything fancy, though you can play with the "advanced" options to effect a Boolean
AND query. (The default search type is OR.) Once on-line, a double-click of the mouse sends you directly to the site. On-line accesses can run in the background, so you can conduct multiple searches.
By the time you read this, CyberSearch will work with Windows 95 versions of Netscape Navigator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, NCSA Mosaic, and GNN/GNN Works. Off-line searching won't give you the
feel
of Web surfing, but it might save you time and money.
Do It Off-Line
