Skip to content
EntityQ854520· pop 23· linked from 374 articles

Also known as Lycos, Inc.

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

via Wikipedia infobox

~8 min read

Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • 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".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lycos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.