- Lycos Moves Into Gamesville
Date: 1999-11-23 Source: InternetNews.com
Lycos Inc. Tuesday made another move to increase the amount of time Internet users spend at its portal. The search engine purchased Gamesville.com, an online entertainment destination, for $207 million in stock. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] - Why CMGI will buy the orphaned Lycos
Date: 1999-05-14 Source: Red Herring
Barry Diller might play rough, but he's not unbeatable. The head of USA Networks officially threw in the towel Wednesday morning, scrapping his plans to buy Lycos . Massive opposition from Lycos shareholders had been expected to ultimately derail the deal. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] - Lycos Transforms Into Directory
Date: 1999-05-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
In an unprecedented move, Lycos changed itself in April from a crawler-based search engine into a Yahoo-like directory of web sites. Never before has a major crawler-based service abandoned automation in preference to human categorization. Even more dramatic is the fact that Lycos is getting its directory data free, courtesy of competitor Netscape. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] |