Lycos
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Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS) is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Ybrant Digital.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Lycos, Inc.
- Website.logo
- Lycos logo.png
- Website.screenshot
- Lycos screenshot.png
- Website.screenshot_size
- 250
- Website.caption
- A screenshot of Lycos.com as of 2015
- Website.location
- Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
- Website.founder
- Michael Loren Mauldin
- Website.revenue
- $250 million (2009)
- Website.parent
- Ybrant Digital (Brightcom Group)
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.language
- Multilingual
- Website.company_type
- Subsidiary
- Website.foundation
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Website.key_people
- Suresh Reddy, CEO of Ybrant Digital
- Website.website_type
- Search engine and web portal
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Lycos Network sites
- Lycos-branded sites
- Former Lycos sites
- See also
- References
- External links
Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS) is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Ybrant Digital.
== Etymology == The word "Lycos" is short for "Lycosidae", which is Latin for "wolf spider".
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