Lycos UK reverts to UK sites only default.

For months they have showed all sites.

[makemetop]

Someone (at last) noticed that the default search at Lycos UK, which said it was UK and Ireland searches as the default - was actually showing worldwide sites. At long last the filter has been put back on - not a .com in sight.

Lycos drove some reasonable traffic for UK searches when the filter was on previously. Now, I wonder if they are going to do anything about their directory - which got hidden from view at the same time as the filter was removed?

[Receptional Andy]

>>Now, I wonder if they are going to do anything about their directory

Lets hope they give some weight to sites in the directory again and Yahoo follow suit... ;)

[engine]

Absolutely.

They are wasting the resource they spent time and effort to create.

[tigger]

The thing is though does anyone use the old dog anymore? I've got some good rankings with Lycos, but I see a trickle of traffic, in fact it's on par with hotbot now

[Receptional Andy]

I think they reached their peak traffic levels with their TV ads a while back. A lot can change with time though. I think the Lycos brand still has some very good qualities, but they have far too many ad-spaces/sponsored listings/ etc. and so web results don't get the hits they used to.

[Tablet of Wax]

Just tried lycos.co.uk with a search term and it returned
the same listing as google (almost). Plenty of dot.coms
where returned, some of which I know are US sites.

So looks like your early comment on lycos now ignoring
non UK sites is incorrect.