Lycos shutting down part of their services – Lycos关闭部分的服务
After Lycos-Europe are closing down last year on Nov, it seems like Lycos is shutting down more services, recently they are shutting their email services and website creation and hosting service. For details, read here from Techcrunch
在这个全球经济不景气的时期写这类网络公司面临关闭的新闻,会不会让人觉得消极呢?自去年11月Lycos-Europe宣布关闭后,据国外媒体报道,面临困难的互联网公司Lycos日前宣布将关闭其电子邮件服务,以及网站创建和寄存服务Tripod。
Lycos以电邮的方式通知所有的用户,内容大概是如此,“我们遗憾地通知你,我们的母公司已经决定停止所有不盈利的服务:电子邮件服务,以及网站创建和寄存服务Tripod. 这两项服务将于2009年2月15日关闭。我们会寻求通过其它服务提供商为您提供服务的解决方案…..” 虽然这样,但用户需要等2月15日后才知道结果,所有数据都将被删除,而且在最后还加一句好像是鼓励你还是尽快自行找其它服务商的词句。
* Tripod问世时间为1992年,1998年被Lycos以5800万美元收购
想当年Lycos的名气并不小,但因着各个竞争对手的激烈竞争下,关闭或转型也是预料中事。
大家都知道,网络公司也就等于泡沫公司,我也曾经历这种经验(公司一个星期关闭, 各国加起来200多个员工突然丢掉饭碗), 所谓天下没有永远的铁饭碗, 外表看起来稳定的公司, 有时内部可能问题一罗罗, 就拿大家把它当作梦想的Google网络公司, 你可知道那些离开Google的人怎么说吗? 读这里.
就把这当作是个历史记载吧, Lycos, 谢谢你多年的服务, 是时候退位了.
下一个是哪一家呢?
If you have no idea about what is Lycos, it means that you must be newbie on Intenet, or someone who just get to know how to surf internet after 2006. Here are short introduce about Lycos (Soon it will become History and filed in Wiki as research forever)
About Lycos:
Lycos began as a search engine out of Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. It went public in 1996 but was bought by Terra Networks in 2000 for $5.4 billion at the height of the dot-com bubble. In 2004 it was sold off to South Korean Daum Communications for a mere $95.4 million. Lycos currently focuses on building communities around broadband media. details here







