Remember Lycos? Well, believe it or not, they’re not dead yet. In fact, the search engine / web portal has just announced that it has regained the rights to use the trademarked brand names “Lycos” and “Hotbot” within the European territory. In case that confuses you: Lycos Europe had an exclusive license to use those terms within Europe under an agreement dating back to 1997 when the company was formed as part of a joint venture and started up European operations independently from Lycos.
In a statement Jungwook Lim, CEO of Lycos (which today is actually a subsidiary of Korean Internet giant Daum Communications), said: “Lycos continues to have a loyal user base and we expect this consolidation to help revitalize and strengthen our search businesses within Europe.” That made me scratch my head a bit, because I’ve been living and working in Europe for a long time and I don’t know a living soul that’s still “loyal” to anything remotely Lycos.
Chuckle along with this additional statement from Edward Noel, General Manager of Search and Business Development for Lycos, too:
“Over the next several weeks Lycos will be re-launching the provision of search services within the European territory. Locally targeted content verticals will gradually be rolled out and we will be taking steps to enhance our users’ search experience.”
If I read that correctly, it seems Lycos is not giving up on Europe just yet. Too bad European users gave up on them long ago.
Another search engine?
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What do you mean “another search engine”? Lycos was launched when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were both only 18 years old, 4 years before Google launched. If anything Google is “just another search engine” in this case.
Earth to Igor…I’m sure they had old shoes that were tossed in the trash since then too…
It can’t fail again!
pfff…..
This is an interesting move. Im not really sure why they would do this.
Like steven i don’t understand why they do that !!!!!
Maybe they plan to re-sell the company…so they have to be active somehow and not dead…
Are you sneering at them for simply trying to do something productive? What would you prefer that they do?
One could argue it’s more lazy than productive to re-launch something from the Deadpool
The words “Lycos” and “productive” don’t often appear in the same sentence.
for the love of god…
Makes perfect sense to me. Go get em Ed!
What is surprising is that Lycos produces better search results than Bing (at least for my one data point “iphone 3g s”).
Just shows how high the bar has been raised by Google. You can have technology that would take msft $100M to match… and you are still lost in the noise.
I guess they’re looking for investors.
agree, I was able to find my name on there. They’re still good. wow. I guess they’re ready to compete.
Why not? LYCOS Europe crashed and is selling all its products. And LYCOS iQ, a question&answer portal, is quite a bit popular in Germany and France.
“Remember Lycos? Well, believe it or not, they’re not dead yet.”
That made me laugh. I don’t think any search engine name besides Hotbot could be more irrelevant to the search wars going on today. Which is a shame, because I used to like Lycos – they seemed to have better (or at least, more comprehensive) search results than other search engines did up until a few years ago.
Actually (just clicked through and visited Lycos for the first time in a year) those results are pretty damn good. Better than when I last visited, and just as good as the ones I remember. Thanks for tempting me to take another look.
I used to have a Lycos email adress… They had a nice service at the time.
Yeah I can’t remember the last time I used Lycos, won’t use in now either. Even Bing is cooler than Lycos imo :p
Dude, if you think bing is cool you must still be wearing Wranglers!
My only guess is they are feeling the heat from Microsoft & Google ?
Last phrase says it all.
Woof! {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/a5Wajqfvmk_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Woof! ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/L96cBtb13G”}}}
You’re kidding…right? From what I understand this is only a Yahoo search feed which explains why results are same.
Nothing to see here kids.
May want to read article: http://www.weba...m-for-yahoo-674.
“Update 6/16/08: Lycos PR Director has confirmed that Lycos is now using Yahoo! search and sponsored ad results.”