Thursday, August 05, 2004

Lycos' New Owner. Now that it's official, the new owner of Lycos, Daum, gave an interview to the WSJ (sub required). Daum is South Korea's biggest Internet-service provider, with more than 35 million registered members. It caters to a Korean audience with a vernacular Web portal that features shopping, games, chat rooms and job-hunting services. In acquiring Lycos, Daum believes it can succeed in the U.S. market by introducing some of the hallmarks of its Korean service, such as features that allow users to build personalized multimedia Web sites. Daum also said it plans to upgrade Lycos's e-mail and search engine. Hmmm...sounds familiar. Sounds just like another company with aspirations to enter the US market by buying a portal....oh yeah, Terra, former owner of Lycos. I dunno, but... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 9:35:16 PM    comment []