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.

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.
A screenshot of Lycos.com as of 2015
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Search engine and web portal
Available inMultilingual
FoundedMay 1994 (1994-05)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
HeadquartersWaltham, Massachusetts, United States
Founder(s)Michael Loren Mauldin
Key peopleSuresh Reddy, CEO of Ybrant Digital
Revenue$250 million (2009)
Employees450 globally (2017)
ParentYbrant Digital (Brightcom Group)
URLlycos.com
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedApril 13, 1995 (1995-04-13)
Current statusActive
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