What ever happened to Lycos?
Lycos. While AltaVista was a casualty of Google some other early search engines are still around in one form or another. Lycos sold again in 2010 for just $35 million but then refocused its business. Today Lycos provides a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.
How old is Lycos?
About 27 years (May 1994)
Lycos/Age
Who owns Lycos?
Brightcom Group
Lycos/Parent organizations
India-based digital marketing solutions company Ybrant Digital has purchased Lycos from Korean Internet company Daum for a reported $36 million in a stock purchase agreement.
Did Ask Jeeves came before Google?
Eventually, in 2003, it was bought out by Yahoo. The most significant web search engines to arrive were AltaVista, my personal favorite in those days, and Ask Jeeves, now Ask.com. AltaVista was the first really fast search engine that also covered much of the Web.
Is Lycos a good search engine?
It also became the first search engine to go public, before its big rivals Yahoo! and Excite. In 1997, it became one of the first profitable Internet businesses in the world. Lycos was one of the most popular websites on the internet, ranking 8th in 1997, and peaking at 4th in both 1999 and 2001.
Who is the company that makes Lycos search engine?
Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Kakao.
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When did the company change its name to Lycos?
In October 2004, the transaction closed and the company name was changed back to Lycos. Under new ownership, Lycos began to refocus its strategy. The company moved away from being a search-centric portal and toward a community destination for broadband entertainment content.
Which is the largest overseas subsidiary of Lycos?
Although Lycos Europe remains the largest of Lycos’s overseas ventures, several other Lycos subsidiaries also entered into joint venture agreements including Lycos Canada, Lycos Korea and Lycos Asia.