51.   Lycos opted for a Lab to plug its newly streamlined search service.

52.   NBC Internet recently acquired Flyswat.com, an online links service, GlobalBrain.net, a search service, and Allbusiness.com, a portal for small businesses.

53.   One extreme approach is taken by Goto.com, a search service started by Bill Gross, the entrepreneur who founded Citysearch.

54.   One of them, Ask Jeeves, has acquired Teoma, a search service developed at Rutgers University.

55.   Other search services are moving quickly to take advantage of their high traffic rates.

56.   Search.com features new technology that lets users personalize the site by placing their favorite search services right on the home page.

57.   Search services have evolved into popular gateways through which people venture onto the Internet.

58.   Search services such as Yahoo or Webcrawler can usually help shoppers quickly find their favorite stores or brands.

59.   So as top-level commerce officials who had been unaware of the partnership investigated the matter, Northern Light began offering free trials of the search service.

60.   Such Web page search services as Webcrawler, Lycos and Yahoo welcome information about new sites.