lycos.co.uk

lycos.co.uk

Where do I start with probably the most advertised of all the web portal, search engines of them all. This is quite hard as this website offers you so many different services it is nearly unbelievable! (well probably not unbelievable, just vast!). Here we go! ~~Searching~~ There are two ... Read review

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Woof, Woof... Mmmm, that'll be Lycos...

Advantages: huge range of services
Disadvantages: none that I can think of

Where do I start with probably the most advertised of all the web portal, search engines of them all. This is quite hard as this website offers you so many different services it is nearly unbelievable! (well probably not unbelievable, just vast!). Here we go!

~~Searching~~
There are two ways of searching for things on Lycos the normal bog standard search facility and the directory format.

The search facility ...
...quickly. The information that you get is normal for a search result you get the link, some information about the website and the website URL. There is also an advanced search facility which allows you to search just The Web, UK and Ireland Sites, Tripod Homepages, Pictures, Sounds, Videos, Books or MP3 files. You can also refine the search for words or phrases that the results "should have", "must have" or "must not have". ... more

ia_young 14.03.2001
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Up And Coming Site With New Features

Advantages: Free text messaging
Disadvantages: Displays the Lycos name at the end of msg's

Lycos is an absolutely great site now and it has really developed over the last few years to be a strong contender with other main web domains such as Yahoo and Alta Vista. However, I now think that Lycos can not just compete with these sites but they have now developed into a very powerful web domain. In this opinion I do not wish to bore you with every single piece of information available from the web site but instead point out some of the key ...
...site is as strong and dominant as Yahoo. ********************** FREE SMS PHONE MESSAGING TO MOBILES ***************** This is the number one advantage Lycos has in the UK at the moment and if you are unaware of this service, I would be very surprised because I think thousands of people are now in regular use of this service. What makes Lycos more advantageous than other mobile phone messaging services is that there is no sign up stage to send a ...

MByford 12.02.2001 · Read full review
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Lycos.co.uk dishonest customer service Trevor Day

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: dishonest service to customer

Lycos.co.uk has a dishonest customer service - Trevor Day The following was happened on 20 to 23 December 2007. I was a customer of lycos.cop.uk and decide to leave them forever after this bad experience. I have a domain signup with them and was not allowed to point my domain to other server although they did provide the function. Trevor Day told me the cheap service that I have got from other providers were not capable, not lycos.co.uk faults. ...
...123-REG My username with lycos.co.uk is ?????-????? My register name is ********** The next register name is also *********** Thanks for your help! Best Regards ============ Half an hour later I called back, Trevor Day said he didn't receive any email from me. Trevor Day ask me to wait for two hours. I called back two hours later, Trevor Day again said he didn't receive any email. Ask him how long will I need to wait, Trevor Day responded he ...

maxco 16.07.2008 · Read full review
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Versatile Lycos

Advantages: Very versatile, many useful features
Disadvantages: None

I always considered Lycos first and foremost as a Search Engine and have been using it, aswell as Yahoo, for this purpose frequently. Just today I decided to explore the Lycos site thoroughly and I must say I was very impressed. The range and variety of features offered is really quite amazing and very interesting and useful. I will try and list some of the sections that I covered today for the benefit of those of you who do not already know. ...
...the left hand side of the homepage. Lycos Mail ---------- A new free e-mail service offered by Lycos. Some of the excellent functions offered are: -You will be able to open attachments directly in your browser and view them much faster. -Unlimited attachment size will make the sending and receiving of emails really easy. -15 MB storage will give you tons of space in your mailbox. (This is more than Yahoo, Hotmail and others) -English not your ...

vinodgm 10.07.2001 · Read full review
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Useful

Advantages: Easy to use
Disadvantages: None

Lycos. co. uk is a very useful search engine. It is very quick and will bring up accurate searches, instead of the usual irrevelant searches. It is very user-friendly, as it is not very difficult to use. The website itself is quite decorative and quite pleasing to the eye. I also quite like the symbol for lycos with the dog's nose supposedly finding everything and being able to search for even the hardest things to find. If you want to find an exact ...

Lowey 30.07.2000 · Read full review
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Second best to Altavista

Advantages: Good search facilities, large database, lots of features like Fetch, Tombola etc. Second best to Altavista
Disadvantages: Repetition of keywords one after the other,nearly identical pages and invisible text

Lycos for me is second best to Altavista. Lycos is a Robot driven search engine which basically is a search engine that uses a robot (also known as a spider, worm, wanderer or crawler) to automatically collect sites for their index. They are different from subject directories/trees which are hierarchical and rely on people to add sites to their index. The term "Lycos" comes from the arachnid family Lycosidae, which are large ground spiders that are ...
...running rather than in a web. Lycos lives up to its name. Rather than catching its "prey" (URLs on a server), Lycos uses a modern scheme to skip from sever to server in Webspace. The secret of Lycos search technique lies in its random choices created by user preferences. Lycos starts with a given URL(Uniform Resource Locator) and collects the information from the resource, including: Title Headings and Subheadings 100 most "weighty" words (using ...

rambo 16.01.2001 (09.02.2001) · Read full review
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Loads of new windows (*)
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can use existing web browser
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