Media Alert: What's Free On the Web? The Lycos 50 Announces the 10 Most-Requested 'Free' Things on the Internet to Celebrate Lycos' Free ISP Offering.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000 The following information is from The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular user searches for the week ending February 26, 2000. For a complete list of The Lycos 50 and for in-depth text of The Lycos 50 Daily Report(TM), go to http://50.lycos.com. The Lycos 50(TM) Top 10 "Free" Search Terms For The Week Ending Feb. 26, 2000 1) Free Greeting Cards 6) Free MP3s 2) Free Games 7) Free ISP 3) Free Pictures 8) Free Chat 4) Free Screen Savers 9) Free Wallpaper 5) Free Stuff 10) Free Clip Art Notes of Interest: In honor of Leap Year leap year: see calendar. and the fact that February 29, 2000 is a "free" day that only rolls around every four years, The Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Lycos 50 compiled a list of the most requested "free" things on the Web. Surprisingly, the most searched for "free" request is Free greeting cards See e-card. . This query surpassed such hot topics as Free ISP See free Internet service. (no. 7) and Free email (no. 11). Additionally, the nomenclature of greeting cards is causing a bit of confusion and it seems nobody can agree on what to call this new method of sending friendly wishes. Top search inquiries range from online greeting cards to virtual cards. On a similar note, although MP3s generate more searches overall than greeting cards, more people ask for "free greeting cards" than for "free MP3s." Our theory is that with traditional mediums, such as greeting cards, moving online, people assume they have to pay; whereas with Internet-specific mediums, such as MP3s, users assume that things are already free. Free-Dom: To be free or not to be free that is the question. It seems the Internet is playing in to the basic human urge of wanting useless and random stuff just because it is free. Free games This article is about Free games. For other uses, see Free games (disambiguation). Free games are video games which are free software and contain exclusively free content. Because of this they are freely distributable and often cross-platform compatible. , number two on The Lycos 50 "free" list gets tons of requests, however there were few requests for specific free games. This leads us to assume that people don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. which game they play as long as it is free. Additionally, three of the top 25 "free" inquiries are Free stuff (no. 5), Free samples (no. 16) and Freebies (no. 17). What exactly people are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. is still to be determined. Question of the Week: Free money debuts this week at number 19. What type of person is searching for free money on the Internet? Perhaps a start-up genius looking for venture capital. As a Final Note: Lycos offers all of these "free" things on their network of sites. Check it out at the following URLs:
Free Greeting Cards (http://www.lycos.americangreetings.com/)
Free Games (http://www.lycos.com/games/)
Free Pictures, Screen Savers, Wallpaper and Clip Art
(http://www.lycos.com/computers/downloads/)
Free MP3s (http://music.lycos.com/)
Free ISP (http://free.lycos.com)
Free Chat (http://chat.lycos.com/)
About Lycos, Inc. Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services including free homepage building, free Web-based e-mail See Internet e-mail service and HTML e-mail. , clubs, chat, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or ; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into featuring more than 2,400 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. , Webmonkey, Suck.com, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville and Lycos Zone. Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com), "Your Personal Internet Guide," is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston, in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. Note to Editors: Lycos(R) is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
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