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Once-Proud Lycos Shutting Down Lycos Europe

The end seems to be near for Lycos Europe.  Although the company's name used to represent one of the world's most important Internet businesses, this branch may soon be chopped up, and then various parts and services will either be sold or terminated.

Lycos Releases Biggest Search Gainers

Lycos has released its most popular search terms and biggest search gainers for the week ending August 11, 2007.

Lycos Wants To Be Teachers Aid

Lycos is helping teachers in the U.S. connect with their students, parents and other educators by using Tripod Web publishing and hosting tools.

Lycos Popular Internet Searches

Lycos has released their list of the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending June 1, 2007.

Niche & Trend Tool List

There has been some useful posts of late that discuss the pracitical methods to get started at developing a new site or blog specifically for affiliate marketing. In particular Aaron Wall discusses practical tips for starting a new site and Dosh Dosh looks at choosing the right blog niche.

TV Web Sites Heat Up During Prime Time

Television viewers are increasingly turning to TV Web sites during prime time, weekdays 8pm-11pm and are spending more time there, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings.

YouTube Streams, Lycos Mixes

YouTube has added some new services to their site. They now allow users to organize video clips around categories. A number of online publications are reporting that YouTube has recently launched TestTube on their site. After doing some research it became clear that TestTube is not a new feature to YouTube and it has been around since December 2006 as reported here. Maybe it is a case of Internet amnesia. I will briefly cover these not so new features anyway.

Lycos Attempts Another Comeback

Over the past few months, we’ve reported on Lycos’ many attempts to reinvent itself and make a comeback. It’s been almost as pitiful as watching Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky Balboa” comeback movie - btw, how can you make a Rocky movie in which he loses!!!

Lycos Top Searches

Lycos, a community destination for broadband entertainment has released The Lycos 50, the most popular search results for the week ending February 24, 2007. “American Idol” contestant Antonella Barba had a surge in Web users searching for her. Not because of an outstanding performance on the show but because news surfaced that there were nude pictures of her on the Internet. In a frenzy users flocked online to see for themselves, resulting in a 47,000 percent jump in interest just for being naked.

Lycos Social Video

Entertainment portal Lycos has announced the launch of a new feature called Lycos Mix, where visitors to the site can select video clips from a variety of popular sources across the Web and create playlists. The new feature expands on the "watch and chat" technology the company used to launch Lycos Cinema in November where users can watch and discuss films. With Lycos Mix users have the option of inviting other member to view their playlist and add to it or they can remain private.