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Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results....   |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos & FAST Launch Paid Inclusion After months of beta testing, FAST has finally opened its paid inclusion program to the general public. However, FAST is not selling inclusion into its web index directly. Instead, FAST is allowing its search partners to resell the service to web site owners and site promoters... |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
Lycos 50 Features Our Searches Forget live search displays. Lycos has realized that all our searches can make for great content, if assembled correctly. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Direct Hit Debuts at MSN Search, Lycos Both MSN Search and Lycos are now featuring Direct Hit results, and the company itself has just received $26 million in financing from a variety of venture firms. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Subtle But Helpful Changes At HotBot Unlike at Lycos.com, Lycos-owned HotBot has no dramatic search provider announcements. HotBot says that it is pleased with its current major providers, Direct Hit and Inktomi, plus says that having a different mix helps the site appeal to a different audience than those using Lycos.com. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Security Concerns Security issues with Lycos and Google came up in July. They aren't likely to impact many, if any, users, so don't get panicked. Here's a rundown on what happened... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New AllTheWeb.com Goes Live FAST Search's AllTheWeb.com got both a new look and new functionality in July, improvements that have turned the site into a top-notch resource for searchers... |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Numbers, Numbers -- But What Do They Mean? Some search engines now tell you both how many pages they've spidered and what they've kept. This article helps you make sense of the numbers. |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Lycos Changes Listings Format Lycos has altered the format of its search results page, in order to consistently present more information from different sources within the same space. |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
"Invisible Web" Revealed Lycos and IntelliSeek, maker of the BullsEye desktop search utility, have teamed up to produce an index of search databases to help users find information that is invisible to search engines.... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Terra Lycos To Launch Paid Placement Network Terra Lycos is set to enter the paid placement game alongside players such as Overture and Google, when the company opens its "InSite AdBuyer" program to advertisers in the coming weeks. |
Information Today
February 25, 2002 |
News Digest CSA Unveils Two New Engineering Databases... FAST, Lycos Offer Co-Branded Service... SciQuest Launches New Products Derived from SciCentral |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 1999 |
September 99 Search Engine Briefs Covers a new Lycos search utility & Northern Light's govsearch service. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Publishes Top Searches Yahoo's made the wise move of realizing what we search for is great content. The Yahoo Buzz Index provides a breakdown of top search topics by category and overall... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
FAST Announces Largest Search Engine FAST Search is now claiming an index of 200 million web pages, which would make it the largest search engine on the web. |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
Who's The Biggest Of Them All? AltaVista is now claiming to have the largest index of the web, at 250 million pages. But is its claim true? Does the service deserve the title of biggest? Probably -- or certainly it and FAST Search share the title. But it's not possible to say so definitively. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
ONLINE
May 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista adds related pages link; Ask Jeeves acquires Direct Hit; New Intelliseek BullsEye Pro 2; Dialog releases WebCheck, etc. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Pamela Parker |
Lycos Europe, Overture Expand Deal, Involve Yahoo! Google and Espotting fail in their bid to replace Yahoo!'s Overture for paid listings on Lycos Europe's search pages. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
InternetNews
March 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Lycos Asks Jeeves Lycos and Jeeves team together to compete against the heavyweights of search: Google, MSN and Yahoo. |
Search Engine Watch
August 23, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Lycos Introduces People, Discussion Search Tools In a bid to differentiate itself from Google and the other major search players, Lycos has rolled out two search tools aimed at helping people connect with other people. |
Search Engine Watch
November 20, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Inducts The First Lycos Elite List Lycos has weighed in with a new list based on search popularity: The Lycos 50 Elite... |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update As expected, now that Yahoo! has launched its own Yahoo! Search database, this has meant the death of unique databases at older search engines, including AltaVista and AlltheWeb. |
AskMen.com
January 31, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
Information Today
July 1, 2002 |
News Digest Web Book Retailers Go Head-to-Head... Terra Lycos Launches Lycos Search 6.0... Quiver Announces QKS Topic Advisor, New Release of QKS Classifier |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2000 |
FAST Upgrades Site FAST Search has upgraded its service to allow searching by language, added the ability to limit searches to title or URL text, and introduced new relevancy algorithms. |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Netscape Search Gets Rebuilt Netscape released a new version of its Netscape Search service in June. Previously powered by Excite, the new service now draws on the Open Directory and Google for its listings. It's a powerful combination that makes Netscape Search worth considering among your top search choices. |
Search Engine Watch
September 12, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Finding Disaster Coverage At Search Engines Following the unprecedented terrorist attack on the United States today, web users turned en masse to search engines for information. It took those services some time to adjust to the demand, but as the day progressed, many came up to speed... |
InternetNews
May 18, 2004
Ron Miller |
Lycos Trumps Google on e-Mail Storage Terra Lycos is first from the gate with a new e-mail service in Europe boasting 1GB of storage. But will users pay a monthly fee? |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos To Charge For Search? Well, Not Really Lycos doesn't really plan to sell search subscriptions to consumers. Instead, it hopes to raise revenue from search via webmasters... |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lights. Camera. Revolution! A blast from the past comes back to screen a new video game plan. For now, Lycos Cinema is providing a seed of innovation. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AltaVista has introduced several listing enhancements that are available for a fee but do not change ranking... Ask Jeeves now includes Teoma results after its question and answer matches... Excite is no longer a separately built search engine... Google has continued to be very active... etc. |
Information Today
March 22, 2004
Gary Price & Barbara Quint |
Lycos HotBot Offers Free DeskTop Toolbar Lycos has launched a free toolbar search product from HotBot, its search service, which the company says is "the first product to integrate traditional desktop search with Web search within the browser." |
InternetNews
February 12, 2004
Rebecca Lieb |
Lycos U.S. Changes... Everything A one, two punch: the company announces a radical strategy shift, and a very lucrative contract with 24/7 Real Media. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Resources About Terrorist Attacks A collection of articles and resources relating to search engines and the terrorist attacks... |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lycos Calls Back A blast from the past is back with a penny-pinching dream of a soft phone service. More than just a "me too" product, Lycos is offering long-distance rates in key markets that are less than half of what Yahoo! and eBay are charging. Investors, take note. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Searching Beyond Text: Multimedia Search Tools We examine some of the search engines available for tracking down the multimedia files available on the Net... |
PC World
February 28, 2002
Tom Spring |
Are Search Results For Sale? Analysis: Search engines walk a tightrope, seeking profit while helping you find what you want... |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has made several significant changes... AltaVista has several undocumented proximity and order operators available on its advanced search... Excite is undergoing a major transition... Google has been busy in recent months introducing several new features... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
The Problems With Rating Services Not only are figures from the web's major ratings services are far from perfect, but they can be and are manipulated much more by web property owners than could ever happen when compared to television ratings. |
InternetNews
August 29, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Lycos Hopes Video Search Improves Its Relevance Lycos is adding a new search capability that will allow users to search for video clips on the Web. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods.... |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2004
Rich Smith |
Lycos' Lesson for Google Investors Terra Networks bought Lycos high, but sells it low. |
InternetNews
March 27, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Lycos Sniffing Out VoIP, And Then Some Lycos has joined the burgeoning free voice-over-IP fray by offering the service to its users. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Patent Wars II: CMGI Strikes Back Tempest in a teapot -- That's what I said in 1997, when Lycos announced it had patents on search engine crawling, and I see nothing different in light of AltaVista's recent claims... |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2004
Chris Sherman |
2003's Most Wanted Search Terms The most popular search terms of the past year reveal as much about the interests of searchers as they do about the perceived 'personalities' of the major search engines. |
