Wow lycos... gee I had forgotten about them!
A few things that look disappointing right off:
- When doing a search, they are so many sponsored sites that any "real" result are below the fold. I'm sure it depends on the search terms, but still, as a person who turns to the web for a lot of information-gathering, it's annoying.
- Along the same line, it makes me wonder if indeed they are making a come back. If so many people are willing to pay for ads?
- Looking at their Adbuyer program, another disappointment is that they don't give many details, rather they provide a phone number (???) or an email address. Seems highly inefficient to me.
- At the bottom of a search page, they offer a second opinion, from Hotbot. Are they THAT insecure ;)?
- They must have read the comments here, as their home page loaded fast for me ;) (DSL connection).
- Of course this could be one of those self-fulfilled prophecies. If people if forums such as this one start looking at Lycos, they'll get popular :).
Looking at the posts so far, and the votes, maybe we're just a bunch of whinies LOL?
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