Lycos, what are you these days?

I remember when there was a time when Lycos was a valued search engine. Have you looked at it lately? It looks and presents itself as a kind of people portal with almost nothing to offer. There was a time when Lycos was one of the major search engines that delivered relevant information. Not any more, in fact the search results come up with about 11 sponsored links before you ever see a natural search listing. Why not close this dinosaur down? It's irrelevant.

If they were portraying themselves as a people portal, then maybe that would be okay, but they're not, they want you to think of them as a search engine. I can't wait for the internet to be rid of garbage like this. These are the types of tactics that created all the problems in the late 90's. Everyone thought that these portals were going to be all the rage. They never were nor will they ever be. I'm convinced people want search results not a pageful of sponsored links, how bad is that. It's as if Lycos is saying, "Our results stink so you'll only see them on the bottom of the page." Disgusting. That's why so many searchers turned away from Lycos, although they still must get a significant amount of traffic to be able to play these games and get away with it.

Maybe they should try changing their name to UselessPeopleInformation.com, at least that would be honest. It all goes along with the people who promise all sorts of Internet traffic for your website, but it isn't relevant traffic. That's what Lycos reminds me of these days. I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings at Lycos as I'm sure they have some good people, but what kind of a show do you guys run there? What are you?

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