Recent stock market flotations of firms like WorldOnline, Lastminute.com and Lycos Europe have failed to impress.
Early on, Davis says, much of the traffic to Lycos' search engine came from Yahoo!
In June, Conducent signed a distribution deal for advert-enabled software with Lycos, a popular Internet site.
Lycos Asia, a joint venture between Lycos and Singapore Telecom, has been around for about four months.
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Despite this, Lycos is usually under-rated by competitors and relegated to second-tier portal status by the press.
Ragas and Martin were founders of RagingBull.com (now owned by Lycos) and started publishing FindProfit in early August.
The veteran of Lycos and Wired Digital builds sites that are typically easy to use and visually uncluttered.
He's started by introducing Zubillaga to Jerry Yang, at Yahoo, and to Robert Davis, chief executive at Lycos.
He's started by introducing Zubillaga to Jerry Yang at Yahoo and to Robert Davis, the CEO at Lycos.
It uses information sources such as AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Magellan, Open Text, WebCrawler, and DejaNews.
Rather than being subsumed, Lycos's acquisitions maintained their own brands, with Lycos selling advertising across all of them.
We decided Yahoo was, say, only two or three times better than Lycos.
It's Lycos with an attitude--its content is a bit racier and more compelling.
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This was the start of a strategy that would set Lycos apart from portals such as Excite and AltaVista.
Analysts now believe Lycos could be a takeover target for another media group.
Compaq Corp. might sell AltaVista and Infoseek Corp. and Lycos Inc. might merge.
Shares in Lycos rose sharply on Tuesday as rumours began to spread that the deal with USA Networks was doomed.
Big companies Electronic Arts and Lycos acquired startups years ago that specialized in casual games such as Pogo and Gamesville.
More big mergers between old-media companies like Reuters, Disney and Dow Jones and Internet kings like Yahoo, Lycos, Cisco and others.
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Separately, the companies said they had reached an agreement under which Ticketmaster and CitySearch services will be featured on Lycos websites.
This allowed it to conserve cash during the online-brand race of the past two years (Lycos has been profitable since 1997).
The deal would have brought together Lycos, USA Networks' Home Shopping television Network and Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, a ticketing and online entertainment agency.
Bob is renowned for turning Lycos into the fastest IPO in Nasdaq history after a mere nine months from inception to offering.
Their PageRank system began delivering far more relevant Web search results than the search engine giants of the day, Yahoo and Lycos.
"We aren't losing faith in advertising, but it isn't growing as quickly as commerce, " concedes Robert Davis, chief executive of Lycos, Inc.
Ken Lang, after acquiring patents he himself filed from previous employer and now defunct search engine LYCOS, is now CTO at Vringo.
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They include Lycos Asia, Yahoo Singapore and Pacfusion - Pacific Internet's portal.
AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, Go, Snap, Yahoo, and MSN all offer branded versions of IE, tailored both by the portals and the users.
Researchers from the University of Sydney typed the words "vaccination" and "immunisation" into seven search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista.
He asked Mr Davis to take it on, becoming Lycos's first employee.
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