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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 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
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
February 3, 2000 |
FAST Gets Bigger, Partners With Lycos FAST Search set a new benchmark in January, when it went unveiled an index of 300 million web pages. This makes it the largest search engine on the web, based on self-reported numbers. |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
December 18, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
HotBot Launches In Europe Lycos Europe has quietly launched its new HotBot UK, France and German sites this month... |
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
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... |
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... |
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. |
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
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
June 2, 2000 |
Inktomi Reenters Battle For Biggest It's been over a year since one could consider Inktomi among the largest search engines on the web. The company's crawler-built index of web pages has stayed static at 110 million, while competitors such as AltaVista, FAST and Northern Light have pushed past the 200 and 300 million marks. Now Inktomi says it's back. |
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
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
New Go Site Goes Up Having given up its goal of being a portal to please all people, the new Go site was formally unveiled last month. So far it retains features that may appeal to general searchers... |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
ONLINE
September 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update The past few months have seen a flurry of announcements of major size increases from several search engines. It seems that the industry as a whole is making renewed efforts to try and keep up with the growth of the Web. |
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
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. |
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
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.... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
ONLINE
July 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Altavista integrates OpenDirectory and Looksmart; Excites launches Photo Search; Google adds new directory, several new features; Inktomi extracts 5x10^6 record GEN3 database; etc. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
HotBot Is Reborn Terra Lycos has been saying for ages that the HotBot site was slated for desperately-needed improvements, and now they've come. |
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
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... |
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... |
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.... |
Search Engine Watch
October 9, 2003
Chris Sherman |
What's In A (Search Engine's) Name? What's a Google? Should you be wary of Inktomi? Here's a look at the origins and meanings of the major search engines' names. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi's Free Add URL Penalty Submitting your page to Inktomi via the free Add URL pages of its partners such as HotBot causes them to incur a ranking penalty. Relax, it's not as bad as it sounds, though disclosure of this change, made in the middle of last year, would have saved us some confusion... |
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... |
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. |
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." |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2004
Rich Smith |
Lycos' Lesson for Google Investors Terra Networks bought Lycos high, but sells it low. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Live At AOL, Enters The UK, To Appear At Lycos & HotBot It's been a busy month for GoTo, with its AOL partnership now live, new in-roads to bring its listings to the United Kingdom, and a deal to provide paid links to Lycos and HotBot just approved... |
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
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
AOL Switches To Inktomi AOL Search has switched over to Inktomi results for its main listings, relegating the Open Directory's presence to having category-only links appearing at the bottom of the page... |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Europe's Paid Placement Warriors Unlike in the US, Overture faces competition for major partners in the form of United Kingdom-based Espotting... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
