Lycos Wants a Come Back
September 1, 2010
Remember Lycos. The search system that made spider names trendy. The search system from Carnegie-Mellon University. The search company that bought our The Point (Top 5% of the Internet) when some of the azurini were playing with toys, not iPad apps? Yes, remember.
The Internet and its search engines continue to evolve and some change hands like Lycos. Featured on brightsideofnews.com, the recent business news article “Lycos, Granddaddy Of Search Engines, Finds A New Home” informs that Lycos has yet again been resold, this time to an Indian Digital Marketing company, Ybrant Digital.
Setup in 1994, Lycos has been one of the pioneers, and soon became the largest search engine. However, its sale price dwindled from $5.4 billion to $36 million in about 10 years. That’s a curve that vectored through the US, Spain, and points beyond.
Having had its own search algorithm and crawler, Lycos now uses the FAST crawler and takes search results from Yahoo!. Amongst many Internet brands that Lycos acquired since its inception, was Chris Kitze and Stephen E Arnold’s ‘The Point’ (Top 5% of the Internet) service. Now that Lycos itself has a new owner, the question is whether Lycos will be able to regain its former position in the world of online.
Leena Singh, September 1, 2010
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