Lycos - Fast Forward

[Advisor]

No Lycos category on the forums? Never noticed before. Seems there should be lycos before there's wisenut!

Anyway, I was just looking at Lycos (which I never do), noticed something new in their results. Now the results have a clickable "fast forward" link next to them. When you click it, it opens up a frame and a navigational bar on the left that shows the other results. A way of keeping you at Lycos, I guess.

Kind of cool, although when I click on a page, I would rather be at that page, not in a frame. I guess you can still do that though by clicking on the title.

Has anyone noticed this before and if so, do you know how long it's been in place?

Jill

[ihelpyou]

Yep. They use to be very close to Fast results anyway but now we are finding out differently. Not sure how important it would be to have a Lycos forum but will consider it.

Anyone get any traffic from Lycos? When I change the forums around a bit, it will allow me to have many more forums available.

No, I hadn't noticed that change at Lycos before.

[french dread]

yes i do receive traffic from lycos, several visitors a day, more that wisenut ;)
what is cool is that when u are in alltheweb u are also in hotbot/lycos network :p

[ihelpyou]

Yes, that is my thoughts also so thought we could use Fast for them. But, when the forums are changed, we'll add a Lycos forums also.

I think it's important to have a WiseNut/the rest of them forum. WiseNut may grow up someday.

[Advisor]

From what our UK friends tell us, Lycos is a major player over there. That's why I was surprised not to see it have it's own category. If anything you could dump HotBot which is just a piece of crap full of ads! (Did I just say that?)

Jill

[ihelpyou]

Nothing will be done until I change up the forums. Patience sweetie. :square:

[Advisor]

No hurry. I don't care much about Lycos. I just had never noticed it was missing here before!

J

[ihelpyou]

I should highlite what we do have in here:

A separate MSN forum as they obviously are important and have their very own algo.

A separate Fast forum.

Things others may not have. :)

[Advisor]

Maybe you could just temporarily make it a Fast/Lycos forum? That would easily do the trick until you're ready to make the big changes.

Or I could see if I can figure out how to do it, if you'd like. :)

J

[ihelpyou]

Okay. I temporally added Lycos to the description of the forum. :)

[Advisor]

I can't see the changes!

J

[ihelpyou]

I can. Refresh your browser or open up another browser. It's there. :)

[Alan Perkins]

Yes it really catches the eye! :rolleyes:

[Advisor]

Well, I changed browsers, closed browsers, deleted caches, deleted histories, still seeing the same plain old Fast on the main page of the forums. :confused: The only thing I didn't do was delete cookies or reboot.

How strange.

Jill

[Alan Perkins]

You mean you don't see that great big

Lycos is also covered in here.

[Alan Perkins]

The description used to read:

alltheweb.com; Strongly up and coming search engine that you should definitely consider in your search engine promotions. Find out here what this engine likes and dislikes

It now reads

alltheweb.com; Strongly up and coming search engine that you should definitely consider in your search engine promotions. Lycos is also covered in here.

[Advisor]

LOL! :green: okay. I guess I DID see the changes! I was looking for a title change! hehehe

And then, Alan, when you said it was obvious, I really figured I was missing something!

You got something against old Lycos that you gotta hide it, Dougie? Considering all the UK members here, it deserves a little bit more respect than that!

J

[Alan Perkins]

Doug

Technically, Fast is in the same mould as Inktomi - not a SE but a provider. alltheweb is to Fast as Hotbot is (or was) to Inktomi - a showcase.

Fast powers lots of searches. There's an old list on WmW (not sure how accurate it still is) here:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum4/170.htm

[ihelpyou]

LOL Trust me peoples, I know the relationships, etc. I find this is another area that is of little importance to me right now. Many things on the plate with the wording of a particular forum down that list of priorities right now. :)

I find it fascinating that after 7 months, this is the first time anyone even has mentioned Lycos as a separate forum. I find them little in importance but am more than willing to give a separate forum When The Time Comes. :)

Please let me get around to changing up the forums. I do not wish to make changes until I am ready to.

Besides, I think the forums are doing rather well as is. Of course, that is IMO only. :)