Lycos
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This article is about the search engine. For the former corporation Terra Lycos, see Terra Networks. For the defunct European venture, see Lycos Europe.
Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Ybrant Digital.
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Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site | Search engine and web portal |
Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | May 1994; 29 years ago (1994-05) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Headquarters | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States |
Founder(s) | Michael Loren Mauldin |
Key people | Suresh Reddy, CEO of Ybrant Digital[1] |
Revenue | $250 million (2009)[2] |
Employees | 450 globally (2017) |
Parent | Ybrant Digital (Brightcom Group)[3] |
URL | lycos.com |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | April 13, 1995; 29 years ago (1995-04-13) |
Current status | Active |
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