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Lycos (Laykos is read) is the search system and the web portal.
History
2010: Purchase by the Indian company Ybrant Digital
In August, 2010 Lycos was purchased for 36 million dollars by the Indian company Ybrant Digital.
2003: In top-20 Internet giant by the Internet audience size
2001: Arrival to Russia
In 2001 Lycos the first of large international portals came to Russia, but in several years of lycos.ru was closed.
1997: Formation of Lycos Europe
The Lycos Europe company was formed in May, 1997 as joint venture Lycos Inc., USA, and Bertelsmann AG, Germany.
1996: Exit to the IPO
In 1996 the company came for the IPO and turned into one of the first-ever business projects on the Internet bringing income.
1995: Creation of Lycos, Inc
Lycos appeared as the research project of Michael Lauren Moldin at the University Carnegie — Mellon. In 1995 with attraction of a venture capital the company Lycos, Inc was created. The search engine Lycos was one of the first in the Internet.
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