November 25, 2008

Christmas Gifts Ideas from Lycos Before Thanksgiving Day

Okay, I understand that we're all trying to "give a jolt" to the economy. But I was still surprised today when Lycos provided a list of Christmas gift ideas two days before Thanksgiving Day. Aren't we all supposed to wait until Black Friday?

Nevertheless, for shoppers who like planning ahead -- or for online retailers and etailers looking for what will be hot this holiday season -- Lycos just announced its ninth annual list of the most popular toys and video games, based on web search activity.

(For a complete list and commentary of the Lycos Top Toys and Video Games of 2008, go to the Lycos 50. You can also voice your opinion on this year's list, and weigh in on weekly Internet trends and pop culture on the Lycos 50 Blog or follow the Lycos 50 on Twitter.)

It shouldn't come as a shock that Apple's iPod holds the top spot as the #1 most-searched for toy this holiday season. But this year, the Apple frenzy includes hot-searched items like the iTouch and iPod Nano.

Harry Potter, at #11, makes a fifth consecutive appearance in 2008, with Harry Potter games, books and DVDs dominating Harry Potter-themed searches.

New in 2008 is KOTA, the Triceratops Dinosaur (#15), generating more search interest than Fisher Price's New Elmo Live (#19). Meanwhile, not so hot in 2008 are Hannah Montana-related toy items, which made a big splash in 2007, but fail to make this year's list.

Spongebob Squarepants (#14) takes over as the top licensed character-themed toy of 2008. Spongebob was last seen on the Lycos Top Toy list in 2005. And when it comes to dolls, Barbie (#6) continues to reign, extending her run on the annual Lycos list of Top Toys and Video Games to nine consecutive years of appearing in the Top 10. But there's not enough data on Caribou Barbie to see if that will be a big hit this year -- let alone in 2012.

Gaming consoles see a big resurgence in search popularity in 2008, with the Nintendo Wii (#10) capturing the most search interest, generating 25% more search activity than the Xbox 360 (#12) and Playstation 3 (#13). Also seeing a resurgence in 2008 are old school classics like Monopoly (#17), despite the current housing market.

Five of the top 25 toys in 2008 originate from the popular world of anime including Naruto (#3), Pokemon (#4), Dragonball (#5), Inuyasha (#7) and Gundam (#16). Meanwhile, one new toy making the 2008 list may be unfamiliar to most adults, but if search activity is any indication, expect the Bakugan Battle Brawlers (#24) to be flying off the shelves this holiday season.

On the video game front, the massive multi-player game RuneScape (#1) scores big with web users for the fourth consecutive year as the most-searched video game of 2008, while Final Fantasy makes its first appearance on the list since 2005, with Final Fantasy XIII (#3). Also racking up points online, making first-ever appearances on the top video games list, are war-themed games including Call of Duty: World at War (#9) and Gears of War 2 (#14), while Guitar Hero World Tour (#8) and Wii Fit (#15) are the most popular Wii-themed games based on web searches in 2008.

Also new in 2008 are Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games Fable 2 (#17), Fallout 3 (#18), Street Fighter IV (#10), Dead Space (#19), Far Cry 2 (#22) and BioShock (#25). This also marks the fourth consecutive year the Madden football-themed games fail to make Lycos's Top Toys and Video Games list.

As for me, I don't do any Christmas shopping until the very last minute. That way, I don't have to figure where to hide presents where my three kids (or wife) can find them before December 24th. Yep, when I say "last minute Christmas shopping" I mean last minute shopping. You'd be surprised how simple decisions are on Christmas eve.

Posted by Greg Jarboe at 11:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

May 5, 2008

Lycos Cinema Expands, Adds Video on Demand

Lycos Cinema has expanded to include Video on Demand (VOD). Previously the social video platform supported ad-supported video.

"Our experience shows us that while film and TV fans welcome the increasing availability to view premium content online, they also desire the social interaction that is inherent in today's web as part of their viewing experience," said Chuck Ball, vice president of sales and marketing for Lycos. "By enabling users to watch the same program at the same time, Lycos Cinema gives users a unique viewing experience they cannot find anywhere else."

All new Lycos Cinema features now include:

4 key viewing modes
Thousands of free VOD and VOD Rental titles
Lobby chat accommodating thousands of users
Easy to use scheduling & invite functionality with automatic
Notification features
Clip & ship widget functions
Time-stamped comments
Full buddy list import-ability to invite AIM buddies to join viewing
Online movie rentals streamed in H.264/MPEG-4 for higher quality
Viewing
'Watchlist' functionality to keep track of favorites

Related Reading: Lycos Jumps Into the Social Mix

Posted by Nathania Johnson at 10:51 AM | Permalink

April 16, 2008

Lycos Partners with Click Forensics to Improve PPC Quality

One month after Yahoo announced its partnership with Click Forensics, Lycos is announcing a similar agreement with the click fraud firm. Today, at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, Lycos will announce the new deal, which they hope will improve the quality of their PPC traffic.

“Because Click Forensics has access to critical PPC traffic data that search engines don't, its solutions enable us to maintain the highest quality of the search traffic we send to our advertisers and partners,” said Ed Noel, General Manager of Search Products for Lycos, Inc.

Click Forensics offers a service that is similar to a spam filter. Their technology uses patent-pending analytics and live campaign data across various search engines to identify sources of bad traffic and click fraud. That information is updated in real-time and then delivered to clients via an API. The delivered data is tailored to the specific needs of Click Forensic's clients.

Now this technology will be used to serve the Lycos paid search program.

“Lycos is one of the oldest and most widely-known Internet brands in the world – reaching 10 percent of the global population with 72 million unique visitors,” said Tom Cuthbert, president of Click Forensics. “They understand advertisers will no longer tolerate low quality traffic or click fraud often missed by search engines, ad networks and online publishers. By teaming with us, Lycos is taking a leadership role to proactively block low quality traffic before it affects client campaigns.”

Posted by Nathania Johnson at 8:32 AM | Permalink

March 21, 2007

Lycos Europe Rebranding As Jubii in US

Lycos has been a player on the web long before Google came along. The company's history almost mirrors the rollercoaster ride of the web itself.

Now having lost the rights to its own name in the United States, Lycos Europe is rebranding itself as Jubii for the US market, while continuing as Lycos Europe in other areas. Lycos Inc., owned by Korean media company Daum, will continue to use the Lycos brand in the U.S.

Jubii is a Danish search and portal company that the Lycos Europe company owns.

The company hopes to ride the popularity of Web 2.0 features that it serves through some of the other companies Lycos acquired over the years.

Lycos Europe CEO Christoph Mohn believes that despite having occurred losses in 27 of the last 28 quarters that the 700-person plus comapny can still get back to profitability.

"I am confident we will have many profitable years... this company is a little bit behind the large players in terms of being nicely profitable, but we really started again in 2001," Mohn told Big Mouth Media. "Give us two or three years. You'll see a lot different Lycos Europe than you see now."

Posted by Frank Watson at 9:32 AM | Permalink

March 6, 2007

The Intersection of Social Search & Pop Culture

That's what social search is really about, isn't it? The reflection of trends and conversation among related entities. Celebrity searches and following the trends in pop culture are nothing new in search of course, and the search engines have been publishing popular searches for years now. Just go to Google Zeitgeist, Yahoo Buzz, the Lycos 50, and AOL Hot Searches, and you can see what's popular in search at any given time.

File this under Tuesday's just for fun blog post, since tonight marks Week 3 of competition on American Idol , it's only appropriate to talk about how the scandal surrounding one contestant has influenced results in each search engine.

American Idol contestant Antonella Barba, of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, has earned the title of the fastest rising star of Internet controversy, as the blogoshere and popular media are focused on racy photos of her circulating around the Web.

On the Lycos 50, she's just edged out the number of searches for MySpace (YouTube, Facebook, and others are further down the list), reaching the #1 most searched for spot, and tops this week's Google Zeitgeist. On Yahoo! Buzz, she's second only to Britney Spears.

It's clear that viral factors influence the rise of these types of scandals, and in Google's search results for Antonella, Technorati tops the list with results tagged for the popstar wannabe and AI related terms. More interesting, of course, is how Google automatcially inserts the second most popular alternative query for a related search: "See results for: antonella barba pictures". Now that's relevancy for you!

Meanwhile, Yahoo's results for similar queries take advantage of the chatter on the topic over at Yahoo Answers, with the top three results integrated into the standard Y! SERPs.

Perhaps most encouraging though, is the adoption of related Pay Per Click ads for Cingular Wireless, official sponsor of American Idol. Sponsored links for the big brand pop up as well as an ad by FOX, promoting the show. That's progress. Of course, there's also several sponsored links to ringtone sellers and other sites promoting the actual pictures. That's less surprising.

Posted by Elisabeth Osmeloski at 1:42 PM | Permalink

February 8, 2007

Lycos Jumps Into the Social Mix

With the launch of Lycos MIX (http://mix.lycos.com), a new bookmarking tool, Lycos users can pull video clips from a variety of different sources across the web (YouTube, MySpace,Yahoo Video, and others) into one playlist, creating a community around shared interests and topics.

Within the MIX interface, users can add new videos, rate and comment on all the videos within a given playlist. Playlists can be made private or kept public, and the owner of a content mix can approve or discard video additions.

Lycos Mix works for both PC and MAC users, and browsers including IE, Windows, Safari and Firefox support Lycos MIX.

More notes from the release:

“Lycos MIX continues the evolution of community and video with a true Web 2.0 collaborative, contributory and interactive social viewing experience,” said Brian Kalinowski, chief operating officer for Lycos, Inc. “Unlike social networking sites, each MIX is a collection of video clips where users socialize around content, not individual people or profiles, creating combinations of lasting content to share with others. With Lycos MIX, users can create an amalgamation of video content where others participate by viewing, commenting and adding more clips.”

Other unique functionality includes a “MIX It” bookmarklet feature, allowing users to quickly and easily add videos from other sites to their MIXES without cutting or pasting URL's. Robust permanent comment and rating system features also allow users to rate MIXES, as opposed to individual pieces of video content.

Posted by Elisabeth Osmeloski at 12:38 PM | Permalink

December 18, 2006

2006 Top Searches

Following Yahoo's release on December 4 of its top searches for 2006, last week AOL, Lycos and MSN Live released their top searches for the year 2006. Google still has their 2005 review at Zeitgeist, along with recent monthly totals. Ask.com presents weekly lists, but has yet to release a 2006 year in review.

A closer look at these lists reveals some interesting questions about the differences in the data from engine to engine.

Looking at the slight differences between this data can be an interesting project, and can probably yield some good insight into both the user demographics of each of the engines

Paris Hilton is an interesting example to use in showing how search engines classify types of searches. In Yahoo! and in AOL, Paris is listed as a celebrity, yet she is found in top News searches for MSN Live. Does this mean that people search Live's (formerly search.msn.com) News category when they look for everyone's favorite socialite?

More can undoubtedly be read into the top overall searches reported for each portal. AOL reports: "weather" (does this mean they included all weather-inclusive searches or just the term "weather?"); Yahoo! says Britney Spears is number one (hmm...wonder if that includes people misspelling it?); MSN Live claims that the world wanted to know about Ronaldinho more than anyone or thing else; and Lycos puts Poker at number one. Again, others can fill in the blanks as to what they think the demographics most closely associated with each portal are.

It will be interesting to see what the top Google searches are. It would also be nice to have some more details as to how many misspellings were included in searches and perhaps how many of the searches for each top term were actually contained in a longer keyword phrase.

See also the discussions about this at the Yahoo! Search Blog, and the MSN Blog post that introduced their list. AOL has opened up the floor for discussion at the AOL Search Blog (thanks Susan for the link!). Lycos provides a platform for discussion which can be found at the Lycos 50 Blog. (Thanks Carolyn!)

(Note this story was edited after I discovered that Paris Hilton did make the top celebrity list at AOL. For some reason I missed that originally. Apologies to the AOL team for this oversight. CB)

Posted by Chris Boggs at 10:58 AM | Permalink

November 1, 2006

Ask.com To Power Lycos Search & Search Ads

Reuters reports that Ask.com has reached a deal with Lycos to power their search engine and search ads. Lycos is the 5th "most popular U.S. Web portal." Ask.com will provide Web search, image search, zoom search and ppc ads for the Lycos Network.

Postscript: Just got the press release, posted below...

Postscript 2: It looks like Ask.com ousted Microsoft's spot with Lycos.

Ask.com Selected to Power LYCOS Network Search Multi-Year Agreement Calls for Ask.com to Provide Search and Advertising Across the LYCOS Network OAKLAND, Calif. and WALTHAM, Mass.– November 1, 2006 – Ask.com, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI) and LYCOS, Inc.(www.lycos.com), a leading web portal, today announced a multi-year agreement whereby Ask.com will be the search and sponsored listings provider for the LYCOS Network, including LYCOS.com, Hotbot.com, Tripod.com and Angelfire.com. Under the terms of the agreement, Ask.com will provide branded algorithmic search, including Web Search, Image Search, and Zoom Related Search, as well as the Ask Sponsored Listings advertising product across the LYCOS Network. LYCOS is the fifth most popular portal in the U.S., consistently ranked as a top 20 U.S. Web property, with more than 6 million monthly unique visitors using LYCOS Network Search. In addition, LYCOS will transition its current sponsored listings advertisers currently using its pay-per-click platform, InSite AdBuyer, to Ask Sponsored Listings, and will promote the Ask.com PPC product to advertisers throughout the LYCOS Network. “We selected Ask.com over other providers because of its great search technology and tools like Zoom related search, which cannot be found on other engines,” said Brian Kalinowski, chief operating officer, LYCOS, Inc. “By partnering with Ask.com, we aim to deliver a world-class search experience to our millions of LYCOS users.” “Ask.com has worked very hard to develop one of a kind search technology and search features that help users get the information they want more quickly,” said Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com. “With stiff competition in the marketplace for syndication deals, we are pleased that LYCOS recognized the merits of our search technology and advertising products. This new relationship will enable Ask.com to broaden its search offering to new users while also increasing the reach of Ask Sponsored Listings inventory.” Under the agreement, Ask.com will provide the following: · Web Search – Delivers highly relevant search results through its ExpertRank proprietary algorithmic search technology, which ranks results based on popularity within topic communities on the Web, rather than mere link popularity. · Image Search – Combines Ask.com's proprietary index of pictures with ExpertRank and patent-pending image search technologies to deliver dramatically improved relevance and quality of search results. Ask.com Image Search has been touted by some as best of class for searching the Image Web. · Zoom Related Search – Offers conceptually-related suggestions to narrow or expand a search query. Zoom related search is placed on the right side of the search results page where most search engines place advertisements. No other search engine has the ability to offer conceptually-related suggestions. · Ask Sponsored Listings (ASL) Search Advertising – Provides highly relevant keyword-targeted, pay-per-click advertising. Advertisers bid for placement through Ask.com's automated open-auction system that also allows marketers to manage and optimize campaigns on Ask.com and its publisher network. ASL sources more than 5 billion queries each month, and supports over 10,000 advertisers bidding on more than 10 million keywords. About Ask.com

A leading search engine on the Web, Ask.com combines world-class search technology with one-of-a-kind search tools to help people get what they are looking for faster. Ask.com sites include Ask.com US (www.Ask.com), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederlands and Ask.com UK. Additionally, Ask.com syndicates its search technology and advertising units to a network of affiliate partners. Ask.com is a division of IAC Search & Media, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI). Ask.com b-roll footage is available at www.thenewsmarket.com/ask.

About LYCOS, Inc. LYCOS, Inc. (www.lycos.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications Corp., a leading Internet portal and e-commerce destination in Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian markets. LYCOS, Inc. creates and operates search, community and technology lifestyle sites including LYCOS.com, Hotbot.com, Tripod.com and Angelfire.com. Other LYCOS products and sites include LYCOS Mail, LYCOS Phone, LYCOS Entertainment, LYCOS Music, LYCOS Games, LYCOS Planet, and GetRelevant. LYCOS was acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum Communications Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ: 035720, www.daum.net.

### ©2006 Lycos, Inc. Lycos® is a registered trademark of Lycos, Inc. All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Daum Communications Corp., Lycos, Inc. or their respective owners. All rights reserved.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 12:51 PM | Permalink

August 3, 2006

Lycos Revamps Email Offering

Lycos mail has been revamped. Storage has been increased to 3 gigabytes (up from 5 megabytes) and file attachments of any size are now allowed. The company is keen to encourage users to swop and move large media files around to support moves to focus a comeback (it's currently the 24th most popular website network in the US) on broadband entertainment content. The free version is ad sponsored, but Lycos is also offering two other commercial options to provide users with account preservation and advert removal.

I can't help but think they're a bit late into the game, and feel that they're going to be disappointed if they are hoping this is going to radically increase their user base. Having an account that self destructs in a month if a user doesn't log in also doesn't lead to confidence; old hands are used to this idea, but since Lycos is trying to attract new internet users they're not going to be familiar with this concept and there may be tears before bedtime.

Posted by Phil Bradley at 5:07 AM | Permalink

July 20, 2006

Lycos Powered By Windows Live & Retriever Directory

It's been a long time since I've looked at Lycos, given how far it has slipped in the search world. Someone asked me about it today, so I took a look -- and what's this at the bottom of the page? "Portions powered by Windows Live."

So hey, it looks like an unannounced Microsoft win. Not much of a win, in that Lycos doesn't have much traffic. And maybe it was announced, and I missed it. By the way, only the unpaid results come from Microsoft. Paid results come from Google -- unless Lycos is showing me Google results because it knows I'm in the UK and has a partnership on this side of the Atlantic. Those in the US potentially are seeing Microsoft adCenter listings.

Lycos also has a new Lycos Retriever directory that I hadn't heard about until seeing Martin Belam dissect it this week. In part 1 of his look, I'd say he's pretty underwhelmed by it.

He is intrigued that it is an attempt to scale through technology. But that just makes me think that Lycos perhaps dusted off the WiseWire technology it bought and deployed back in 1998 for its Lycos Community Guides. Those weren't a killer app for Lycos then. I kind of doubt doing a similar thing in the midst of Web 2.0 hype will help much now.

Meanwhile, part 2 of Martin's look basically asks if the new directory isn't just a scraper site designed to draw in search traffic from elsewhere. Perhaps. To be fair, some pages like this for Belarus use the meta noindex tag, which should keep them out of other search engines. The same thing is true for the blank page example Martin shows in his report. But other pages like this for Minsk have no such restrictions.

Postscript: Brian Ulicny sends me this:

I was one of the guys who worked on Lycos Retriever before Lycos got rid of its search staff (well, all but 2) in February. It is not based on WiseWire technology at all. The idea was to build an automated, self-updating Wikipedia. In any case, the idea was interesting, and it was a fun project to work on. I wrote a paper about it recently, which I can send if you like.

Some topics came out pretty well. For example, see e.g.

But we had quite a way to go before Retriever was all we'd hoped it would be. In any case, I'm sure we'll see more things like it in the future.

Cool -- and I'm asking Brian for a link to his paper, to add to the above. Meanwhile, Lycos also wrote to say that the Windows Live partnership was indeed an unannounced change and that:

Retriever is a beta project our search group launched several months ago. We will continue to capitalize on our assets with our Daum engineers in Korea, taking full advantage of Daum's knowledge and expertise, in continuing to build out the Retriever product and other search initiatives

Postscript Barry: If you would like to view the presentation and paper on this, Brian posted them at his blog. You can download the paper on Retriever and also the slides & presentation.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 7:40 AM | Permalink

February 6, 2006

Report: Lycos May Have Laid Off Most Its Search Team Go

Battelle over at Searchblog reports that two sources have told him that Lycos may have let most of its search team go and will keep just a skeleton crew in place to run the service.

For the search historians out there, the Lycos crawling technology was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and then entered into an exclusive licensing deal with CMG@Ventures on June 20, 1995. Here's the original press release. The news release credits Michael Maudlin as the lead developer of the Lycos spider. He is also listed as the inventor on two U.S. Patents. An interesting read by Maudlin from 1997, "Lycos: Design choices in an Internet search service," is available here.

Postscript: If you would like to read more early web search announcements, here's a compilation of them I put together several years ago.

Postscript by Barry: Loren Baker reports that Lycos Responds to Rumors of Abandoning Search. Where he reports on a letter received by Jim Hedger from Lycos stating; "Lycos has had a recent restructuring, which did involve members of the search team. But Lycos is NOT divesting in Search and has not abandoned search." More information at Search Engine Journal.

Posted by Gary Price at 5:34 PM | Permalink

September 21, 2005

10 Years of Popular Search Terms at Lycos

As Lycos celebrates its 10th birthday, The Lycos 50, their daily look at popular search terms, has published a new list that takes a look at the 50 most popular terms over the past decade. The Clickz article: Ten Years of Search Terms, offers a look at the complete list along with some analysis by Lycos 50 writer, Dean Tsouvalas. More analysis here.

So, what have people been trying to find info about over the past decade? Here's a quick peek at the Top 5 terms from The Lycos 50, September 1995 - September 2005.

Pam Anderson
Dragonball
Pokemon
Britney Spears
WWE

Btw, the first editions of the Lycos 50 (according the archive) were published in August, 1999.

Posted by Gary Price at 10:07 AM | Permalink

September 6, 2005

Katrina Missing Persons Meta Search Tools from Lycos and Yahoo

Lycos has a new Search Katrina Missing Persons Sites meta search service now up. In one go, it checks listings from more than 35 missing person sites that have sprung up since the storm. Sources of these listings are listed in the right-hand navigation. You can also add a site here.

Yahoo also has released a meta search tool that simultaneously searches for names across a number of missing person boards from various sites including Yahoo Groups, NOLA.com, and MSNBC.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 2:40 PM | Permalink

May 2, 2005

Picsearch Images Come to Lycos

Picsearch, the Stockholm-based provider of image search results to several engines including Ask Jeeves MSN Search have just announced a deal with Lycos to include Picsearch image results on Lycos properties in the U.S. Image search at Lycos is found under their multimedia search tab.

Posted by Gary Price at 10:03 AM | Permalink

April 14, 2005

Yahoo Extends Paid Search Deal With Lycos Europe

Yahoo has extended its existing partnership to provide paid listings to Lycos Europe in what's called a "multi-year" agreement. The deal covers sponsored search results on Lycos sites for the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland.

The deal also makes Yahoo the exclusive provider of contextual ads to Lycos Europe properties in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. Google was the previous contextual provider, to my knowledge, having signed a deal in 2003.

Contextual ads will show up in the chat, email, directory and channel pages in all named countries and additionally in Lycos Shopping pages for all by Spain and The Netherlands.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 8:39 AM | Permalink

April 5, 2005

Lycos To Distribute Ads Through AlmondNet Post-Search Network

Lycos in Deal for Search-Targeted Banner Ads from AdWeek covers how Lycos will be distributing its paid listings through the AlmondNet search behavioral targeting system I wrote about in January: New Search Behavioral Network Launched. It's the first significant paid listing vendor to publicly partner with AlmondNet. The company has other partners who haven't yet committed publicly. The AdWeek story also notes that Claria plans its own search behavioral targeting service, based on the data is gathers. See my Claria Debuts RelevancyRank: Search Ranking By Behavioral Activity article from last month for more about how that happens.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 5:55 PM | Permalink

March 2, 2005

Ask Jeeves Now Powering Lycos Web Search

Score another deal for Mr. Jeeves. Word this morning that Ask Jeeves is now powering web search on the Lycos.com site. Details in this news release.

Posted by Gary Price at 10:44 AM | Permalink

February 23, 2005

Lycos Offers Dating Meta Search

Looking for that perfect partner? Lycos Dating Search now up in beta lets you meta search for across popular dating and matchmaking sites for matches. See also this ClickZ article, Lycos to Launch Dating Search.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 10:10 AM | Permalink

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November 30, 2004

Lycos Reselling SEO

There's discussion on our forums about Lycos reselling SEO services, causing some firms to wonder if more search engines will do the same and perhaps have an unfair advantage by clients who will assume they have some type of inside knowledge. Read more here in this forum thread, Lycos, ASK to resell SEO in the US. And Search Engine Lowdown has Ask downplaying the idea of it trying to do the same.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 12:41 PM | Permalink

September 16, 2004

Happy Birthday to The Lycos 50!

The always interesting and informative Lycos 50 list is celebrating its fifth birthday.

Posted by Gary Price at 8:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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