[greenyoda]

Even stranger: If you go to www.tripod.com, it redirects to https://www.tripod.lycos.com. Going to https://www.lycos.com, you can see that Lycos, one of several search engines that predated Google, is still around. Here's their about page: https://info.lycos.com/about/company-overview/

[makeworld]

It seems like a pretty decent search engine also.