Soon after, the pair began trying to sell their technology to Web sites, including Infoseek, Excite and Yahoo.
The Walt Disney Company has bought 43% of Infoseek, the Internet search engine and directory service.
For example, Infoseek was a great name, but it got Googled out of existence.
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His top pick is Internet portal Infoseek, which he likes mostly because Disney owns a 45% stake.
It uses information sources such as AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Magellan, Open Text, WebCrawler, and DejaNews.
Compaq Corp. might sell AltaVista and Infoseek Corp. and Lycos Inc. might merge.
"We are an information provider, so for us hand-helds have always been an integral part of our strategy, " Infoseek's Goel says.
The business is highly competitive, even more so since Disney spent a lot of money relaunching InfoSeek as Go last month.
Kirsch is an entrepreneur and former chief executive of Infoseek, a search engine that has withered away since being acquired by Disney.
Expect more deals in the coming months like the one Infoseek recently signed with Microsoft making it the search engine on WebTV's services.
Disney's new one-stop portal will be launched later this year, but the new expanded company will continue to operate under the name Infoseek.
Last year, it put together its Internet assets with Infoseek, a search engine, to create Go.com, a portal of which it owns 72%.
Disney has Infoseek and Time Warner has Roadrunner -- small potatoes.
Its early U.S. competitors Excite and Infoseek are pretty much nowhere to be seen in Asia, but Boston-based Lycos has arrived with an ambitious regional strategy.
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The move will enable Disney's Buena Vista Internet Group to create a new "portal" or access site to the Internet, which ultimately could combine Disney's ABC News and ESPN sports with Infoseek's popular search engine.
On Thursday, executives from Lycos, Excite and Infoseek will speak on a panel called "In the Eye of the Internet Networks: The Power of Conglomeration" at CES' Digital Hollywood, a kind of a show within the show.
The .com suffix generally implies an American domicile, though not exclusively. (The U.S. also has a .us suffix, but it is rarely used.) Canny opportunists are registering site names like Amazon.com.nl in the Netherlands or Infoseek.com.id in Indonesia, anticipating that Jeff Bezos or Disney will pay big bucks for the names as they move ahead with international e-commerce plans.
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