Comments on: Lycos Email Spam, How Low Can You Go

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:24:28 +0000

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By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:26:54 +0000

And now they are clearly at the end of the road. I got this email today:

Dear User,

We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities.

One of the activities that will be discontinued is our E-mail business division. For this reason, we are hereby terminating your account as of 15 February 2009. Currently, we are still working on finding a solution to provide you the service through another provider. If we should succeed to do so, we will inform you within the next 4 weeks. But as this is currently doubtful, we would like to ask you to assume the end of the service.

Prior to this date, you may continue to log in to your e-mail account and receive and send mail as usual. After this date, however, we will close your account and delete all content and access authorizations stored with Lycos in relation to your e-mail account, in accordance with legal requirements.

You will then no longer be able to receive or send e-mail under your e-mail address. The contents of your mailbox will also no longer be accessible. For this reason, we ask that you back up all important data from your Lycos e-mail account in the next few days and switch to another e-mail provider.

Should you still be entitled to services for any additional paid options, we will of course reimburse the balance to the bank account you provided.

We regret this measure and would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us.

Kind regards,

Your LYCOS Mail Team

Lycos UK Ltd., 35 Vine Street, London, EC3N 2AA, UK
registered in ENGLAND AND WALES | Registration No. 03923511 | VAT number: 756796467

E-Mail: mail-support-uk@lycos-europe.com | Tel.: 0906 784 4 784 (1Â£/min.)
http://www.lycos.co.uk

By: Burnzy

Burnzy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:44:25 +0000

Reply to posts from charles and Jason :

Charles : Do a search for Yahoo.co.uk on your traffic trend link, shows poor results also, people still use Yahoo!!

Jason : Yes, lycos allow adult content, so what? To make money? Of course, it’s the highest searched industry. Google recently lifted their ban on gambling sites on .co.uk allowing them to advertise via PPC, this is was obviously to make money also was it not??

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:02:10 +0000

That message came from Adrac, not Lycos, Adrac sell the ads for Lycos. Also, I think this is a great idea, they are probably selling shit loads and its a great product to be pitching. Lycos will make money from this so no matter how many webmasters complain, there will still be 50x more buying the links and sending a bucket load of cash to Lycos.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:03:39 +0000

lycos are now even pushing adult content to try and make money, if you see down the left hand side youll see the adult section…….. shame they have had to resort to selling there body to make money, there tagline is meet you there apparently ? i for one wont be being entertained by some of there new desperate measures to make money.

By: Cabalamat

Cabalamat — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:22:21 +0000

I don’t object to ads; I welcome ads that are relevant or for products I’m interested in. I do object to animated banner ads — they’re distracting and make the text harder to read. If a web site has too much animated graphics on it, I simply don’t look at it.

I wasn’t aware it was the first day you put ads on — i hope you make lots of money from them.

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:18:39 +0000

Cabalamat this blog has been ad free for 18 months and the day I put an advert on there you complain. Do you expect people to never put ads on blogs?

By: Matt Sawyer

Matt Sawyer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:36:47 +0000

Would Google ever whore themselves for money? Of course not

Lycos have been doing this a for a while though. I had calls going to clients for the past couple of years at least. It’s a self-perpetuating circle, the results are crap, so people don’t use them, they don’t make any money, they sell results, the results get crapper, less people use them……… To get to this stage you have to have given up any hope of becoming a ‘serious’ search engine.

By: Cabalamat

Cabalamat — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:24:05 +0000

I wasn’t aware Lycos still existed. At least their RSS feed, unlike yours, doesn’t include giant animated banner ads.

By: Web Project Company

Web Project Company — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:15:05 +0000

And they need to compete with google adwords as well isnt it !