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For Sale: Lycos.com
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")."
guk sucks
YOU FAIL IT HARD!
I remember when the web was young. Me and Rosy had so much fun searching sites and downloading porn on Webcrawler and Yahoo.com.
But the idea seems so old now. If you don't know where to go, you usually end up at CNN anyway.
I have been pwned because my
Does anyone else think that the picture on the lycos webpage, under the Model url, looks like Michael Jackson? ::Shudders::
je suis parce que j'aime
I want a medal, too. I invented the is-it-good-or-is-it-whack troll, for Christ's sake!
What the hell?
GNAA Trollympics. What is it all about... is it good, or is it whack?
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.
I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.
go get me that yarn, it's gonna be a long day if this is all that's important.
I write code.
It's about time a mainstream site give some props to a business which, although offensive to some (in my experience, a small minority), are in my opinion at least, damn cool and deserving of more credit (especially considering it makes more money than industry x and y combined | x and y varying widely). This link turns out to be a decent portal site in and of itself. I don't know how it compares to it's competitors, I don't have time to do a study or anything, but I'm glad to see porn going more mainstream. If it were offensive to as many people as the news seems to imply, I don't think it would be making as much money as it is, tending to use the newest technologies first, etc.. This is a moment in history which frankly rocks. Long live Lycos.
BTW, I am not in the porn business nor a shill for them. I'm a fan who is damn sick of the prejudice I see in most of [american] media. They appear to be disproportionately influenced / controlled by a bunch of rather arrogant religious groups who act like porn is some huge evil destroyer of souls. If they can't handle it, they should avoid it. But many people can, and enjoy it, and there is nothing wrong with those people.
My bid is a dollar. I believe that to be highly a highly reasonable and generous bid.
anyone know what the story is with northernlight.com?
looking at their home page now, it looks like they went corporate/ enterprise search
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
And while you're at it, what's a "bln"?
I'm thinking people should use real words.
That is some hillarious shit. Keep up the good work.
Wow.
Utterly and completely wow. I feel that there is a hole inside of me now.
I remember norternlight.com TV ads.
Now thats a segment of my childhood. I got all 120 stars, hacked mario 64 with a gameshark pro to make him fly when I hit the L button, and drop when I let go, I used altavista (effectively at that, and it got to be a trick before I found google), Linux seemed arcane and weird to me.
Stories like this make me feel that somehow the world is declining, that the corprate giant is stangling all that was one promised to us for the few bucks that the promise had in its back pocket.
God, I can see why my parents are the way they are.
I hope that this is just the lack of sleep and the depressing realization that the web is no longer radical typing. I hope I wake up and think that I was crazy last night. Mabey...
Oh well, I allways have Doc Seus to break me out of deep thoughtfull, depressing moments, like this:
--
I learned there are troubles
Of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!
md5sum
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
I knew there was something different about www.nymphos.com. I must have typed in lycos by accident.
http://siokaos.org/
GNAA is not very GNU/Linuxy
Maybe if you gave credit where it is due and renamed yourselves GNU/GNAA
Go back to school kid. It says clearly 18+ only, won't work for you. ;-)
I use ogg because i'm an open source fanboy who can't afford an ipod.
Umm surely Bert and Ernie would NEVER be in a 3-way with Miss Piggie.
So you're upset your last search blew up in your face . . . ?
Will you have my babies?
open4free
spaseebah comdrade! our communist software movement will succeed yet and we'll wipe out those imperialist american pigs! javol!