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Under new ownership, Lycos began to refocus its strategy in 2005, moving away from a search-centric portal, toward a community destination for broadband entertainment content. With a new management team in place, Lycos ... began divesting in properties that were not core to its new strategy. In July 2006, Wired News, which had been part of Lycos since the purchase of Wired Digital in 1998, was sold to Conde Nast and re-merged with Wired magazine. The Lycos Finance division, best known for Quote.com and Raging Bull.com, was sold to FT Interactive Data Corporation in February 2006, while its online dating site Matchmaker.com was sold to Date.com. In 2006, Lycos also regained ownership of the Lycos trademark from Carnegie Mellon University, becoming Lycos, Inc. once again.
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A glance at the Lycos Network Help page shows they already have many of the technologies in place. Anglefire and Tripod are services geared to helping beginning bloggers or website builders create web-ready properties ready to accept fresh content. Much of that content can be stored, shared and gathered using Planet, a youth-focused social network platform introduced by Lycos. New webmasters can register domains through Lycos and receive HTML tutorials, manuals and gadgets through the WebMonkey and HTMLGear services. Wired Magazine is considered to be among the most credible sources of Internet and technology news.
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Lycos was developed by Dr. Michael L. Mauldin and his team at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Machine Translation, beginning in May 1994. Lycos' name comes from Lycosidae, the Latin name for the wolf spider family. Unlike other spiders that sit passively in their web, wolf spiders are hunters, actively stalking their prey.
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Lycos may look like another portal that has totally gone paid spidering and submission, but this is not entirely true. Lycos.com does still offer a free web site submission option, but the reliability of this option is questionable. Through the free submission option Lycos offers the submission of one web page, and claims that inclusion into the database will take from 4 to 6 weeks. Lycos covers its own interest by stating that inclusion into the database is not guaranteed, which makes it easier for them to deny a web site and make the paid submission and spidering mandatory.
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Introducing Lycos InSite™ AdBuyer, a cost-per-click ad auction platform designed to help you to drive highly qualified traffic to your Web site. Creating keyword-driven marketing campaigns makes it easy to reach the millions of Lycos Network users who may be searching for your product, service or content. Select your search terms, set your bid price and only pay for actual clicks.
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Zoey Zane (#9) makes her first-ever appearance on the Lycos 50, gaining 880% in search interest this week following news reports that a body reportedly identified as Zane was recently found in El Dorado, Kansas. Zoey Zane, the pseudonym of 18-year-old adult Internet model Emily Sander, a student at Butler Community College in El Dorado, was reported missing on Nov. 23. While the AP reports the cause of death is not yet known, police are investigating a man, Isreal Mireles, whom Sander was seen leaving a bar on the day of her disappearance. Mireles is currently the subject of an international manhunt. The Zoey Zane web site is currently offering a reward of more than $3,000 for information leading to the capture of Isreal Mireles, and gives visitors the option of contributing to the fund. Elsewhere on the Lycos 50, Disney (#5) maintains its position in the top five, due in part to the success of its recent film, "Enchanted," which topped the box office for the second weekend in a row.
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