Iwon & Lycos to Merge?

[rogerd]

Speculation of a possible marriage between Iwon and Lycos here [cbs.marketwatch.com]. Surprisingly, Iwon is the possible aquirer.

[jeremy goodrich]

Interesting news, I could see that making a lot of sense of Iwon to develop their portfolio of advertising properties. Seems to me that in the last few years, Lycos & Hotbot have both just kind of lagged behind...I guess only time will tell if the 'hotbot hacks' and "Deskbar" they just released will do anything for them, but imho, they both lack that extra special something to snare a large, loyal & growing net audience that increasingly, has more & complicated demands.

All speculation, though - my 'speculation' is that joe surfer already forgot about those portals, and with Yahoo all over the television, and Microsoft's MSN continually trying new & slick ways to get a bigger piece of the Internet, is that for all the 'excitement' it just adds up to Much Ado About Nothing (like the Shakespeare play).