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Lycos

Summary

Lycos is an enterprise[1]. Lycos ranks in the top 4% of enterprise entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (699 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lycos is in the country of United States[3].
  • Lycos's instance of is recorded as enterprise[4].
  • Lycos's instance of is recorded as university spin-off[5].
  • Lycos's owned by is recorded as Brightcom Group[6].
  • Lycos's logo image is recorded as Lycos logo.png[7].
  • Lycos's headquarters location is recorded as Waltham[8].
  • Lycos's ISNI is recorded as 0000000094942760[9].
  • Lycos's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 139854888[10].
  • Lycos's GND ID is recorded as 4690742-7[11].
  • Lycos's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no96018007[12].
  • +1994-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Lycos[13].
  • Lycos's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04ng5[14].
  • Lycos's official website is recorded as https://www.lycos.com/[15].
  • Lycos's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+26619'}[16].
  • Lycos's owner of is recorded as HotBot[17].
  • Lycos's owner of is recorded as Angelfire[18].
  • Lycos's owner of is recorded as Gamesville[19].
  • Lycos's owner of is recorded as Love@Lycos[20].
  • Lycos's owner of is recorded as Tripod.com[21].
  • Lycos's owner of is recorded as Rock on Request[22].
  • Lycos's owner of is recorded as Weather Zombie[23].
  • Lycos's Crunchbase organization ID is recorded as lycos-inc-[24].
  • Lycos's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007359534405171[25].
  • Lycos's domain name is recorded as lycos.com[26].

Body

Founding

+1994-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Lycos[13].

Operations

Lycos's headquarters location is recorded as Waltham[8].

Ownership

Lycos's owned by is recorded as Brightcom Group[6].

Why It Matters

Lycos ranks in the top 4% of enterprise entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (699 views/month).[2] Lycos has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Lycos is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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