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News Lycos was knocked offline yesterday and the search engine is blaming the company's ISP for the outage. Lycos' customers were without access to email and other services after construction workers accidentally damaged the systems of Savvis, a... [03 Jan 2007]
Yahoo! engine sparks Browzar backlash
News The problems extend beyond Overture, which is the same engine used by websites such as Lycos and Orange. The man behind private surfing tool Browzar has responded to mounting criticism by assuring users that the search tool on the application's... [04 Sep 2006]
Google to settle click fraud suit with $90m?
News The lawsuit was filed by Caulfield Investigations and Lane's Gifts and Collectibles against Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com; Buena Vista Internet Group, doing business as Go.com; FindWhat.com, now known as Miva Media; Google; LookSmart; Lycos... [09 Mar 2006]
Google launches tools for hurricane relief
News Lycos announced a hurricane search tool last week. People can search for missing friends and relatives by name or get referred to other sites that are providing information and relief services, Lycos said. [13 Sep 2005]
Google desktop search: Take two
News The move puts Google in direct competition with AOL, Lycos and Yahoo! Google launched a new beta version of its desktop search tool on Monday, which features updated web navigation software and an innovative tool-bar. [22 Aug 2005]
Spamming tool forced to look for new home
News Send-Safe.com moved to Lycos' Tripod network over the weekend ago after it quietly moved from MCI's network. But on Monday the website was down for the second time in 48 hours with a message from Lycos that said: "The page you are attempting to... [01 Mar 2005]
MyDoom variant goes Googling
News The same variant of MyDoom also succeeded in knocking a number of smaller search engines - including Lycos and AltaVista - off the web completely. Sophos said the worm will send 45 per cent of its queries to Google, 22.5 per cent to Lycos, 20 per... [17 Feb 2005]
Claws out as fur company sites taken down
News Last year, Lycos' Make Love Not Spam campaign highlighted that DoS attacks are not covered by British law. Animal rights protesters launched denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on Monday against seven organisations that work in the fur trade. [15 Feb 2005]
What do Carol Vorderman and David Blunkett have in common?
News BT, the European Union, Lycos, Carol Vorderman and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) stood accused on Thursday of hampering Britain's Internet sector. Lycos is in the frame for launching its 'Make Love Not Spam... [23 Dec 2004]
Google shuts off Santy worm
News The same variant of MyDoom also succeeded in knocking a number of smaller search engines - including Lycos and AltaVista - off the web completely. Google has responded to calls from antivirus companies to stop the advance of an internet worm that... [22 Dec 2004]
Lycos email scam hides nasty Trojan
News A malicious email purporting to offer a link to download Lycos' controversial spam busting screensaver is infecting users with a Trojan - proving that the fall out from the botched and now ditched service will continue to cause users pain. [08 Dec 2004]
Lycos kills off its anti-spam zombies
News After a week of heavy criticism of the company's plan to launch denial-of-service-like attacks on spammers, Lycos has thrown in the towel, lashing out at the media and internet monitoring company NetCraft. [07 Dec 2004]
Lycos knocks spammers off the web
News Web portal company Lycos' 'Make love not spam' campaign has killed access to some of the websites of its target spammers as the result of denial-of-service attacks. According to internet traffic monitoring company Netcraft, Lycos successfully took... [02 Dec 2004]
Hackers take down Lycos anti-spam website
News Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycos's anti-spam website just hours after it went live. Lycos on Tuesday kicked off its "make love not spam" campaign by offering users a screensaver that helps to launch distributed denial-of... [01 Dec 2004]
Spammers targeted with DDoS attack
News Lycos is offering its customers a screensaver that helps to launch denial-of-service attacks on spammers' websites - a tactic more commonly associated with hackers or the spammers themselves who abuse networks of compromised machines to send large... [30 Nov 2004]
