Lycos is one of the original (est. 1995) and most widely-known Internet brands in the world, evolving from one of the first search engines on the web, into a comprehensive network of social media web sites that foster online communities. Lycos’s award-winning products and services include tools for blogging, web publishing and hosting, online games, e-mail, and search.

Lycos consistently averages 12 - 15 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S. The Lycos Network of sites and services include Lycos.com, Tripod, Angelfire, HotBot, Gamesville, WhoWhere, and Lycos Mail. Integrated, these sites help individual users retrieve, manage, consume and create information tailored to meet his or her personal interests.

Lycos has been a pioneer in intelligent spidering search technology, combining its proprietary technology with other best in class search services to provide a powerful and relevant search experience for its users. Through its acquisitions over the years, Lycos has added established brands including Tripod, Angelfire, Gamesville and WhoWhere to its network of products and services.

Lycos is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ybrant Digital, the end-to-end global digital marketing company. Lycos is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Ybrant Digital is headquartered in Hyderabad, India and has a global presence, with offices in 20 countries including North America, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Serbia, Israel, India and Australia, and representatives in Scandinavia, Poland, Italy and Greece. www.ybrantdigital.com.

Milestones
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Lycos added Christopher Cummings as Director of Product Management. (1/1/98)

Posted 12/15/11 at 7:12am
Lycos added Jessica Canary as Sr. Marketing & Communications Specialist. (1/3/11)

Posted 7/29/11 at 5:52am
Lycos added Oded Lev as Chief Operating Officer.

Posted 5/18/11 at 12:32pm
Lycos added Jungwook Lim as Chief Executive Officer.

Posted 5/18/11 at 12:32pm
Lycos added Edward Noel as Chief Revenue Officer.

Posted 5/18/11 at 12:32pm
Lycos added Krzysztof Kowalczyk as Head of Content and Technology Poland. (12/1/00)

Posted 2/7/11 at 10:45pm
Lycos added Bill Townsend as VP Advertising. (8/1/95)

Posted 5/24/10 at 11:36am
Lycos added Ambar Shrivastava as Web Developer. (1/1/00)

Posted 5/24/10 at 11:35am
Lycos added Jeff Bennett as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development. (12/1/96)

Posted 6/20/09 at 6:46am
Lycos added Jeffrey Veen as Director, User Experience.

Posted 6/5/09 at 11:46am
Lycos added JÃ¶rg Malang as Product Director.

Posted 6/10/08 at 12:46am