New "stylish" lycos uk coming in a few days

[engine]

Will the new design revive the dog?

We'd have to wait and see, of course.

[heini]

You can have a preview at Lycos.fr [home.lycos.fr] - already live for a couple of days.

[edit_g]

I've had a chance to see it and it does look very good - they've also had a very good tidy up and hired and fired quite liberally - with positive results.

They're more on the ball in the money department as well, than they were before IMHO.

Does anyone think a redesign makes that much of a difference?

[mack]

It's about the only mouseover effect I have seen that I like. The dog paw that show up when you mouse over a link.

Mack.

[TravelSite]

I think the money department might be in firm control of things at Lycos. It appears to sell its ad space well in advance to resellers. This can make a fair bit of business sense - they don't have to worry about sales staff wages, know up front a good part of their yearly income/budget and can concentrate on developing other content - like dating / ringtones and so on (why try to compete with google etc – it would be a losing battle for them). Perhaps its ignored what others are doing and just looked at what’s best for it – developing content and outsourcing the search side of things. Some of the content seems good – and its updated daily.

That said – it really doesn’t seem to create much traffic to the sites I manage. Although it’s not a sensible approach I try to avoid it like the plague – mainly as I hate the fact that its “advertising partners” will rip small traders out of a fortune if they can. And then there’s those daily 3-4 phone calls a day from their resellers :)

Are there any good resources on Lycos Uk out there (aside from what they say on the site)? Has anyone had a positive advertising experience with the them recently (can you deal with them direct)?

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Has anyone had a positive advertising experience with the them recently (can you deal with them direct)?

You can deal with them direct, but not for advertising AFAIK - so if you do you have to provide content and you invariably end up on a revenue share deal.

[Rumbas]

Original design went live at Jubii.dk [jubii.dk] a couple of weeks ago. The team is responsible for the new design for all Lycos portals. They've also updated their algo on Jubii. In a pleasant way I must say ;)

[edit_g]

This has gone live now in the uk.

[tosspot17]

Lots of it is very buggy. Password request come up for alot of pages, and if you press cancel you get the page anyway, but apparently with no style sheets.

[edit_g]

There are quite a few dead links as well. I'm sure it will settle - it's hard to get everything just right for public launch. Saying that, it does pay to try very, very hard...

[Dayo_UK]

Actually I like it a lot, much better distinction in the Search Results from sponsered to normal results (having said that I cant remember the old lycos much now!)

When I first used the Internet Lycos was the first search engine I used :) - Probably due to the dog adverts on the television - they did use to advertise heavly.

Mack - Re mouseover - UK does not have the dogs paw :(

[nutsandbolts]

Love the new design... very sexy.

[elgumbo]

Lets hope they get the traffic to match.

I rank 1st, 5th and 19th for one keyword so lets see if I get any refferals from them as there have been bugger all in the past!

[peewhy]

Lycos.co.uk looks good.

Initially when the comic like black and white page comes up, I thought I broken something ...but its good, I like it!

[elaineb]

Lycos UK - just had a look at the new site - very impressed. Used to be cluttered with US listings - but this seems to have been rectified. I get better listings here than on Google - might start promoting it!