New look Lycos - plus lots of other changes

[Crazy_Fool]

I've just been checking rankings for a couple of sites and Lycos has a very new look. Anyone know when this happened?

Until recently, I was able to log onto www.lycos.com, but trying a search simply redirected me to www.lycos.co.uk without performing a search (I had to use a proxy to search on Lycos.com). This now appears to be fixed and I can search from both www.lycos.com and www.lycos.co.uk

Until this "upgrade", SERPS on www.lycos.co.uk were different to those on www.lycos.com - they now appear to be identical apart from www.lycos.com uses sponsored listings from Overture.com while Lycos.co.uk uses sponsored listings from uk.overture.com

Anyone notice any other major changes?

[heini]

The directory listings do not - or rarely - appear on serps...

The new look started from Germany over France, Italy to UK mid July, previous discussions here:

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