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I don't know if this is still the case but when I worked for Lycos 10 or 11 years back they owned Hotbot so including both in the list is a bit redundant. They

by throwaway2016a 8y ago

I don't know if this is still the case but when I worked for Lycos 10 or 11 years back they owned Hotbot so including both in the list is a bit redundant. They also -- despite being one of the first ever search engines -- didn't do their own search in 2008. They outsourced to Yahoo. Though there was an effort at the time to become a search engine again. I don't know if anything came of it. Edit: It's hilarious they labeled Lycos as... > Lycos—is still around! Because even at the time I worked their the number one response I got from people when I told them that was "They still exist?"

jccalhoun 8y ago
What was it like to work there? I know it was a decade ago but I am still curious what it would be like to work at these mostly forgotten companies that still manage to exist.
- throwaway2016a 8y ago
  Maybe an AMA for another time :) But the short summary: I loved it. It was a really fun company with a lot of great people. And we got to launch some really great products. Most of whom were let go during the great recession (myself included) but it was fun while it lasted. On the flip side, every time we launched a product the news media treated it as a novelty instead of a serious thing. Which was insanely frustrating. Some of our tech was way ahead of its time.