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Lycos

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.

Type of business

Multilingual

May 1994 (1994-05)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Suresh Reddy, CEO of Ybrant Digital[1]

$250 million (2009)[2]

450 globally (2017)

Etymology[edit]

The word "Lycos" is short for "Lycosidae", which is Latin for "wolf spider".[4]

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April 13, 1995 (1995-04-13)

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