Previous work included writing a column called the Lycos 50 on lycos.com.
At the time, Lycos, Infoseek and Excite were considered established and more popular internet search engines while Yahoo! was better described as an internet directory.
The first of them, Live on Line, published in 2000, had also a free distribution by the search engine Lycos.
It was therefore only a very short cognitive leap from Julia to Lycos, another robotic agent that explores a virtual world made of hyperlinked pages of text, and which answers questions about those pages.
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In 1994, Dr. Mauldin, Founder of Lycos, Inc., developed a prototype Chatterbot, Julia, which competed in the internationally known Turing test, for the coveted Loebner Prize.
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Formerly SVP/GM at Namemedia, VP/GM Global Search & Publishing at Lycos, VP Marketing at Fast Search & Transfer.
Sold assets included the sale of the Danish portal Jubii, the Lycos Chat - worldsbiggestchat (which at the time was both the Lycos & Yahoo Chat in Europe) was transferred to the new operator Noesis Systems Ltd, on March 9, 2009 and later rebranded as the Noesis Chat, Love@Lycos was sold to a Swedish company.
Before joining Cycorp, he was a principal scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge-based approaches to understanding Web user behavior; he has also been associated with Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center and the Informedia Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon.
Major search engines that index pages using spiders are Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, and Lycos.
He hosted his own popular "Monty Python home page" that was cited by both Lycos and the Global Network Navigator.