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Lycos launched today 8 years ago.
Lycos quietly launched with a catalog of 54,000 documents. Less than a month later, when Dr. Mauldin announced the service to the comp.infosystems.announce Usenet Newsgroup, the crawler had amassed more than 390,000 documents in its index. While that number may seem small compared with today's 2+ billion web pages, at the time it was a notable achievement for a search engine.
Hey, 8 years ago I didn't even heard about the internet. We've come a long was since then and so has the search engines. Interesting times.
Searchday [searchenginewatch.com]
The state Lycos is in however is less than happy.
Financially most parts of the Lycos empire are in a very bad shape. It's the reliance on ad revenue that strangles them.
With the withdrawl of the half Billion ad contract from Bertelsmann the future looks bleak.
Lets hope they make the transition to new content and service driven revenue models.
