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Considering I figured they'd died shortly after the bust, 36M doesn't sound that bad to me.



My first thought was "Woah, Lycos was still around?".


Yeah I'm not sure where the value is. The hope of converting traffic?

I can name a dozen startups that would be better $36M investments.


I'm not sure where the value is

According to the OP they seem to think it's in the brand name, which is pretty bizarre - how much brand recognition can Lycos have? Last time I can remember using Lycos, something like only 1% of people were on the Internet, and at least some of us must have died since then :-)


If they relaunched it I might use it for retro charm.




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