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For Sale: Lycos.com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-an-offer dept.

prostoalex writes "Terra Lycos is planning to sell Lycos.com. The price, quoted by News.com.com.com, is in the $200 mln range, while the original acquisition amounted to $12.5 bln. Lycos is currently re-inventing itself as a portal for the new generation with the link to Playboy affiliate placed right on the front page (click on "Adults 18+ only")."

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  1. Caffeninated soap on the front page of Lycos? by rolocroz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Did anyone else get the ad for Shower Shock caffeinated soap on the Lycos front page? It leads to a link to a search for it, which then leads to ThinkGeek. Odd.

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    1. Re:Caffeninated soap on the front page of Lycos? by benna · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.

      Huh?

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    2. Re:Caffeninated soap on the front page of Lycos? by sahrss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.

      Ha, I like that! A spin on the sigs that say "I metamod all negative moderation Unfair because I want everyone to have to read 70 comments at a threshold of 5!"

      :P

  2. where are they now? by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    anyone know what the story is with northernlight.com?

    looking at their home page now, it looks like they went corporate/ enterprise search

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  3. Re:"Adults 18+ only" by badansible · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go back to school kid. It says clearly 18+ only, won't work for you. ;-)