Lycos

Lycos is one of the globally acclaimed names dedicated to the service of being a Web Host. Lycos is however, not mere into the business of Web hosting. The company is also into providing all other sorts of web and internet related services.

Introduction:

Lycos is known to be one of the world’s first web portals. It has almost been there since web portals came into being. In addition to this, Lycos is also the oldest search engine around. Since it has been n service for so long, the brand name Lycos has also come to be associated with trust and reliability over time.

History of Lycos:

Lycos was started up in the year 1994. It first began as a search engine. However, sometime 5 years later, in the year 1999 they diversified from serving as a search engine and went on to also provide answers to queries online. Later they also launched the web hosting service, which gained instant popularity.

Today Lycos has grown large and metamorphosed into an organization that hosts a lot more than just web sites for other people. Some of the services that the host include:

• Websites
• Mail
• Blogs
• Cinema services
• Photo album services
• Gaming services

Lycos:

In addition to all these things, there is another thing that Lycos is dedicated to servicing – they help to find and protect children. Lycos is actively involved in helping The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).