Lycos
A screenshot of Lycos.com as of 2015 | |
| Type of business | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
Type of site | Search engine and web portal |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | May 1994 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States |
| Founder(s) | Michael Loren Mauldin |
| Key people | Suresh Reddy, CEO of Ybrant Digital |
| Revenue | $250 million (2009) |
| Parent | Ybrant Digital (Brightcom Group) |
| URL | lycos.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | April 13, 1995 |
| Current status | Active |
Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS), 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.