Lycos: Gone Goose
November 28, 2008
Years ago I was involved in a Web directory and classification project. A company grew out of our effort and in the mid 1990s, we sold the company, the code, and the servers to Lycos. Most people don’t remember The Point and our Top 5% of the Internet backlink play. I read in PaidContent.org here that “Lycos Europe has finally conceded what had become increasingly clear – no one wants to buy the ailing portal.” Lycos was one of the first Web indexing systems. I recall a wizard named Fuzzy who was the indexing and search guru. At one meeting, he perched on a rubber ball. That’s a pleasant memory, but now the Lycos service seems to moved from the Search Engine Death watch list to the failed system category. I will root through my files and see what information I have about the system. Too bad. I fear more search systems will find themselves in the same dank pool of red ink.
Stephen Arnold, November 28, 2008
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