It is sad to read that Lycos Europe is calling it a day after 14 years in existence. From its birth as one of the first ever search engines in 1994, Lycos grew to become the most visited web portal in the world with a presence in 40 countries. There is no word on Lycos’ North American arm but one ...

Remember Lycos? It was once an unavoidable name on par with the Facebooks and the Twitters of the current world, but things change fast on the Internet. Its European arm, Lycos Europe, is shutting down after being unable to return to the path of profitability and/or find a buyer. The company, consis...

Games, Economy, Media Wade Roush wrote: “Countercyclical” is a word you’re probably going to hear a lot in the coming months—from entrepreneurs professing that their businesses are not only recession-proof, but will actually fare better during lean times. It’s a word th...

I attended a webinar on Product Management today entitled, Product Manager 101: What Does A Product Manager Actually Do by Christopher Cummings of Lycos (did you know that they still exist?).  His short form definition: The product manager is the glue that binds the team together and the grease...

Daft Punk's Electroma is an odyssey of two robots who journey across a mythic American landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become human. Schedule a screening of your own, tonight, only on Lycos Cinema.  Long live the journey of French disco aliens everywhere. (mp3)    ...

Even as Lycos tries to sell its European segment, the veteran search engine is doing more than just movies in its efforts to expand its multimedia verticals. Webon is Lycos’ latest project, which offers basic site-creation tools. This new service is geared towards individual bloggers and site ...

Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you wanted to get together with friends to watch such movies as “Convoy,� “Captain Kid,� “Day of the Triffids,� “Ultrachrist!� or “Monster from a Prehistoric Planet?� Lycos, the Web portal from the Palaeozoic Era of the Internet, has ...

Lycos might be one of the last names you’d expect to see associated with the online video darlings YouTube and Hulu. The search-engine-cum-internet-portal that rose to international popularity in the late 90s before crashing down to earth post-bubble-burst certainly hasn’t been on our ra...

Now here’s some unusual logic: ask people to pay $3.99 for online video they may be able to see free and ad-supported elsewhere. Charge them more — $5.99 for two to five people, $7.99 for six to ten — if they want to watch it simultaneously with friends (on different computers). Th...

Lycos, a search engine used back in the 20th century by very few people, is reporting today that the term "poker" has dropped from its Top 10 Internet searches for the week ending Feb. 23, 2008. This is the first time poker has not been in the Top 10 in nearly two years. Topping the list was our fav...