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And a question: the bottom of the page states: Lycos is trademark of Carnegie Mellon University.
Why does www.cmu.edu [cmu.edu] use Google-search?
[webmasterworld.com...]
All major Lycos.Europe sites got that new look, as far as I have seen.
Anyway the really interesting thing is the directory listings do not show on serps anymore!
Just some very clearly marked PPC listings, followed by pure FAST.
NFFC says in the thread on british Lycos [webmasterworld.com]:
They (=directory litings) seem to have moved from UK sites to the Fast English index, they do it a few times but always revert back.
Hmmm hope so...
Those directory listings aren't cheap!
I donīt think so:
Have a look at this [suche.lycos.de].
The search for "hamburg" shows a directory-listing at the first position. And the rest is quite different from the FAST-listings.
I guess, that the first result is paid for appearing, too. Which reason should one have to pay for a directory-listing?
The first listing is from the Lycos Network, in this particular case totally unrelated etc (Lycos guide soccer entry page ??).
It's not a directory listing anyhow.
The second listing is pretty interesting: it's from FAST newssearch!
Following then is 100% pure FAST serp, filtered for german language pages.
But the first of those comes from the directory - I needed some seconds to see it, because it's the same url that makes #1 in ATW serps too.
So yes, we have 1 directory listing here. For me it looks like this is the rare exception anyhow. Many of the directory listings I follow do not appear on the serps anymore.
