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Lycos Life – Coming Soon

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Post by fierycatnet »

arihant wrote: post #8

They are gaming the brand name, it seems. Lycos was acquired by Ybrant Digital in 2010. Ybrant later merged with an Indian company. It's now traded on Indian stock exchange. Ybrant is behind this. So, technically, not the same Lycos.

Oh, my first thought was "that's one company I haven't heard of in a long time". Figured Lycos is trying to do something cool for their come back. Guess not.

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Post by Apocryphon »

canweriotnow wrote: post #15

Is AltaVista going to do an IoT pivot next? Maybe Pets.com?

I really want to read cheesy near future speculative fiction from the late '90s where they toss around hot brands of the day like that. But I don't think any cyberpunk author worth their salt would have done something so easily that would go out of date.

Though this always gets a kick out of me (Orion's Arm, online massive sci-fi collaborative project http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b2afc424975):

[2017] - Personal Virtual Reality media interfaces begin to take the market share from TV, radio, films, and other media.

[2018] - First supercomputer using memristors, 'Harvey', constructed by a team lead by Peter Shor at Bell labs, with funding from IBM, Lycos, RedHat and Pepsi.

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Post by arihant »

adam12 wrote: post #17
arihant wrote: post #8

They are gaming the brand name, it seems. Lycos was acquired by Ybrant Digital in 2010. Ybrant later merged with an Indian company. It's now traded on Indian stock exchange. Ybrant is behind this. So, technically, not the same Lycos.

I would think that using the name Lycos would hurt the company.

I thought that too. But for some reason Ybrant is hell bent on milking it. They are still running the Lycos search engine and are slowly transitioning all their B2C products under Lycos brand.

I don't know how it helps as Lycos died in the west and nobody knew about it in India.

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