Talk:Lycos
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Note that "Lycos" and "Lycos Europe" are two different companies. The latter was a joint venture partner with Bertelsmann. (There were a number of other JVs, including Lycos Japan, Lycos Asia, etc. The Lycos US had a financial stake in these companies, but they were otherwise separate.) While the brand names are the same, the underlying sites aren't necessarily similar. For example, Lycos Europe has both Tripod and Angelfire sites... but they have very different features than their US counterparts.
We should remove information here pertaining just to Lycos Europe, since all the corporate history is wrong in that context. Instead, there should be a separate article if there is enough information.
In specific, Lycos US had nothing to do with the nifty screensaver. Sadly. JRP
Lycos was sold to Terra for $12.5 billion?? Lushsight 12:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, yes, the dotcom years. Well, at least they got $105 million dollars for their $12.5 billion dollar investment. For me, this deserves a wikilink to Schadenfreude. Stev0 15:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] lycos.com inaccessible
See subj. As of date added and a few hours earlier. -Mardus 18:50, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Same company?
Is Lycos in any way associated with http://geocities.com people? Merged?
- Geocities is Yahoo. Tripod and Angelfire are Lycos' homepage providers. JRP 01:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mail Stuff
Lycos mail now offers 3 gigabytes and "unlimited" file size attachments for its free email accounts.
[edit] Lycos 50
Is the Lycos 50 notable enough to mention in this article? --Galaxiaad 10:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Advert?
I disagree with User:Feezo's {{advert}} tag. The article contains plenty of damning information (that it was sold to Daum for < 1% of its purchase price by Terra, for example). Of course, the article could be augmented and improved in many ways, but I don't think it needs to be tagged as an ad. --Macrakis 20:37, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I also agree that the {{advert}} should be removed. I see no blatent advertising at all! Ukmonkey 19:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, since Feezo hasn't defended his tag here, I am removing it. --Macrakis 19:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
