Every day at the Lycos 50 the Lycos 50 tells you about what people are looking for when they come to Lycos. But what if when they come to Lycos, people are looking for Lycos?
As one of the world's leading Internet companies, Lycos offers a number of services. Some of them have our name on them, and some don't. What are the top Lycos searches on Lycos?
1) LYCOS
2) LOVE@LYCOS
3) LYCOS SMS
4) LYCOS.COM
5) LYCOS CHAT
6) LYCOS FREE SMS
7) WWW.LYCOS.COM
8) LYCOS MAIL
9) LYCOS GAMES
10) LYCOS MUSIC
11) LYCOS EMAIL
12) LYCOS MULTIMEDIA
13) LYCOS.CO.UK
14) LYCOS.FR
15) MY LYCOS
16) LYCOS RADIO
17) clubs
18) clubs
19) LYCOS PICTURES
20) LYCOS TALK RADIO
We know what you are saying. That many people search for Lycos on Lycos? Don't they know they are already on Lycos? And why are they searching for lycos.com rather than typing it in their browsers?
Well, this is one of the dirty secrets of the Lycos search logs. A large number of people search for www.stage.lycos.com:83 rather than putting the URL in their browsers. The same goes for www.dragonball.com, or www.napster.com, or any other topic in (or even near) the Lycos 50. We even get searches which include, in the query, the http:// at the beginning of all web addresses.
This list definitely shows the popularity of SMS, which we wrote about yesterday. You also see the international flavor of Lycos, with both Lycos UK and Lycos France getting plenty of searches from folks on regular Lycos.
Love@Lycos, by the way, is our hugely popular personals service in Europe. Here in the U.S., we have Matchmaker instead, which is also popular and a great place to meet the man or woman of your dreams.
Speaking of Matchmaker, here are the top ten searches for Lycos-owned products that aren't named Lycos:
HOTBOT (search)
GAMESVILE (games)
MATCHMAKER (personals)
TRIPOD (personal websites)
ANGELFIRE (personal websites)
TERRA (our Spanish sister)
RAGING BULL (financial)
WHOWHERE (people search)
WEBMONKEY (webpage codes)
QUOTE.COM (financial)
On top of this, we still get a good number of searches for Mailcity, which is what we used to call our free online e-mail service. It is now known simply as Lycos Mail and you can check it out here.
One more thing: you'll notice that the Lycos 50 is missing from the above list. Sigh. That's okay, we trust you all know where to find us (each day at ).
