What's this, Lycos results on Lycos?

No really!

[littleman]

I am seeing a whole bunch of real Lycos submissions actually in the Lycos search engine. Mostly I am seeing it coming out of Europe, and they are claming that these pages are being powered by Directhit, but I know for a fact that these are REAL lycos results. I am hoping that the US results will soon be the same as the international. This has been one hell of a holiday weekend!

[littleman]

Is no one else seeing this? It is still happening for me. The vast majority is coming out of Europe, and they DO appear to be pages I submitted to lycos. These pages are not in US lycos or are they in Fast. Please, someone confirm this so I do not think I am seeing hallucinations after the Yahoo crisis.

[engine]

Can't say I've seen this effect. I'll keep a watch out and report back if I see anything.

[littleman]

And now I am finding the same results intermittently coming out of netfind.co.uk

[netfind.co.uk ]

Just put your kw in place of 'keyword'. These are the same results I see coming out of Europe's Lycos results. They are not the same as what is coming out of fast or lycos/US.

[Brett_Tabke]

At the top of the lycos results are 2 to 4 "Popular Results". Those were coming from Inktomi as influenced by Direct Hit. (aka: same as Hotbot). I can see two things have changed there. 1) the results aren't Inktomi anylonger(?) and don't appear to be Fast results. 2) When did this [Translate] show up?

So you think these 'popular' sites are coming from Lycos submissions?

[littleman]

Yes, absolutely.

[JamesR]

Littleman,

Just wanted to confirm your findings but only seeing hits come out of lycos.co.uk. Have one domain (.com) that shows up #1 on a fairly popular two word phrase if the search is done using the worldwide option. I saw the regular T-Rex spider to the site before it is listed so it seems like the same situation you described. Still not seeing this on the US portal.