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Lycos

Who runs Lycos, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web search portal alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
DuckDuckGo

Measured from Lycos’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Lycos

Lycos lycos.com

Wikidata: search engine and web portal

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Lycos tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

8 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Lycos

Fewer trackers than LycosNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Lycos match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Lycos adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 6 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
57 ms

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CSS & UI
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Tag managers
CDN
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DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)