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...Google took over the search market after pioneers such as Lycos failed to keep up with changing trends. Baidu is seen as China’s answer to Google....
...But first-mover advantage does not count for everything as AltaVista, Lycos and other early search engines can attest....
...gearing up for an IPO in March 2000, but after delaying the float by a month to integrate a French acquisition, the Nasdaq crashed and the founders sold the business for less than they had hoped – $764m – to Lycos...
...Mr Mohn’s CV features a chastening decade in charge of Lycos Europe, before, during and after the dotcom bust. His father, Reinhard, led Bertelsmann for 34 years....
...It then bought Lycos for stock in a $12.6bn transaction, only for its value to plunge....
...People involved in the process praised Christoph Mohn, who cut his teeth running internet platform Lycos Europe, for input throughout the process – and his feel for the digital world in which Mr Rabe wants...
...Daum, the country’s largest portal, took over Lycos of the US in 2004 but had struggled to turn around the loss-making US business as it could not compete effectively with bigger rivals such as Google and...
...After fending off a potential bid from Lycos, merging with Gandi, a French domain name registrar, and changing business model again (it now offers free and premium options), sales grew 70 per cent to €11m...
...Google has reported the iPod touch is its most searched-for product after Nintendo’s Wii games console and Wii Fit game, while the Lycos search engine has iPod as its top search....
...Lycos Europe originally licensed products supplied by its former US parent, Lycos, which was bought by Daum Communications, the South Korean portal, for $95.5m in 2004....
...Who now trembles at the mention of AltaVista, Lycos or even Yahoo? Still, regulators must watch Google’s current practices. Even a short-lived monopoly can exploit its customers if it so chooses....
...The first product, Lycos iQ, emerged from the pipeline around a year ago....
...This brings me to my point: what happened to Lycos? It was a multibillion-dollar search engine. It became Terra Lycos. Then it was absorbed into Telefónica, Spain’s biggest phone company....
...Like other media businesses, portals have no god-given rights to retain their audiences, says Bob Davies, who once ran Lycos and is now a venture capitalist....
...By incorporating the Blinx technology, Lycos hopes to make it easier for its nearly 25m unique users to find online video content....
...what Jim Lanzone, chief executive, calls “a history of over-promising and under-delivering”, Ask Jeeves outlasted more highly regarded search companies that have fallen by the wayside, such as Alta Vista, Lycos...
...Marcus Eggensperger, legal director at Lycos Europe, said: “As a registrar, we are lucky because we have new markets but, to be honest, for trademark owners it could be a problem to have to make defensive...
...Daum acquired Lycos, the US-based English language portal, for Won111.2bn in 2004. At the same time, South Korea’s fast-growing internet shopping malls have drawn interest from international players....
...Thomas Middelhoff, his predecessor, had made Bertelsmann a world leader in new media – with stakes in Barnes&Noble.com, the online bookseller, and in Lycos, the web portal, to name but two....
...Luckily for the Shakeds, a mistake by the Lycos search engine resulted in the fledgling casino’s banner advertising being flashed across the world....
...According to Lycos Europe, 72,000 people had already downloaded it prior to its launch, but it is also a likely target for hackers....
...He is currently program chair for the Web 2.0 conference, a columnist for Business 2.0, and the founder, chairman, and publisher of Federated Media Publishing, Inc....
...Lycos has been sold by Spain’s Terra Lycos for a mere $95.5m to Daum Communications, South Korea’s leading internet portal....
...Daum Communications, South Korea’s leading internet portal, on Monday bought Lycos, the US-based English language internet portal, from Spain’s Terra Lycos....
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