Neowin News Feed for: Lycos

Lycos is not dead, will launch new services in 2013

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:49:36 +0000

Lycos, one of the biggest names in Internet search engines in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is planning to launch a new search engine it developed in house in 2013. Read more...

Updated: Lycos continue the shut downs, or not?

Damien Reynolds — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:35:08 +0000

Update: Lycos have responded and confirmed that Tripod is not shutting down and all free and paid member sites are just fine. Lycos have reached out to TechCrunch directly to amend the incorrect report. A... Read more...

Lycos Europe to close down services

Damien Reynolds — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:41:41 +0000

I am a proud member of Lycos Web Hosting but was a bit shocked today to receive a message through informing me I am being transferred due to the failure of gaining investment for Lycos... Read more...

Cuil up and fall into obscurity

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:44:27 +0000

Remember upstart search engine Cuil? If you don't, we're not surprised. Cuil launched back in July of 2008 with tons of press coverage. Developed largely by former employees of Google the company claimed that their... Read more...

Lycos Drops Spam-Fighting Screensaver

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 03:29:55 +0000

A week after its launch, internet portal Lycos has decided to pull the download of its controversial spam fighting screensaver. Dubbed "Makelovenotspam", the Lycos screensaver was designed to flood known spam servers with useless traffic,... Read more...

Lycos Europe Denies Attack on Zombie Army

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 02:36:28 +0000

Internet portal Lycos Europe has denied that its "Make love not spam" Web site was hacked into and defaced last night. The company said that an e-mail that contained an apparent mirror... Read more...

Lycos Releases Spam Fighting Screensaver

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:26:16 +0000

Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail. Lycos hopes will it make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar... Read more...

Lycos Europe Beats Google to Market with 1GB Email

Tue, 18 May 2004 17:06:54 +0000

Web portal Lycos Europe beat its larger rival Google to market with an e-mail service featuring one gigabyte of storage space, the company announced on Tuesday. Lycos Europe said the new service was going live... Read more...

Lycos Communities disbanded

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:37:46 +0000

Lycos US is closing its chat services and message boards from next month. The portal is pulling the plug on its "Lycos Communities" (including chat, message boards, clubs and image galleries) from February 1. Terra... Read more...

Terra Lycos to Start New Messaging Service with IBM

Sat, 02 Nov 2002 08:59:13 +0000

Spanish Internet media company Terra Lycos SA said on Thursday it will bring together several instant messaging services it offers globally by year-end into a new service built on IBM Corp.'s technology. ... Read more...

Terra Lycos Unveils New Online Music Service

Tue, 11 Jun 2002 05:08:26 +0000

Spanish Internet media company Terra Lycos on Tuesday launched an online radio-style music subscription service that will offer music from four major record labels. Terra Lycos said it partnered with Listen.com to... Read more...