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 Foreigner don't under our culture!
Written by Trueman from Hong Kong on 11/29/2001
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| Foreign companies often believe that producing a local version of a Web site is just a process of translating the original content into Thai. They don't take into account the fact that Asian users are different and their lifestyles and behavior need to be considered during design and development. That's why LycosAsia failed so poorly in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore! |
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Lycos is going no where!
Written by Bob Dillon from Hong Kong on 11/1/2001
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| Like most dot com's which depends on vc support so when nasdaq crashed...they crashed big time!!! Heard news that alot of their staff were headhunted to join another company, guess they better close shop. :) |
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The success of website is from their production
Written by yahoo from Hong Kong on 10/30/2001
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| The core of a website is content. If they have not good content, they have no ability to say other thing include advertising. Lycosasia is totally fail on their content strategy. There are some local portal is doing "quite well", sina is one of them. Yahoo is focus on web product, and its strategy is success. Web product no need to be interesting, useful is ok.
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Asian business laid off
Written by Gwan from Singapore on 10/18/2001
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| Lycos Asia was right at first by expanding into Asia, but it did wrongly by appling localization of its US content or style, most of the features applied in US doesn't apply here in Singapore, Hong Kong or China. The site search engine supposed to be a strong feature, but the poor result always disappoint me. Btw, I don't like the recent promotion from Lycos asking people to submit site, who raise this idea should be fired immediately! |
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LycosAsia massive laid off staffs
Written by Sam from Hong Kong on 10/12/2001
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| Lycos only remain very few staffs in The Center office in Hong Kong. The failure of their website is because of poor content and design direction. Beside money, the company has nothing and the operation in Asia has lost over $24 million in 3rd quarter. Good bye and good luck! |
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Business model
Written by Bob Dillon from Hong Kong on 10/2/2001
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| I do not find Lycos Asia's content anymore attractive as their exclusive content providers dropped out so fast. They tried to apply the monopoly theory onto those providers as well by charging them a fee and force them to use the standard layout from LA. I wouldn't think anyone will be that stupid by providing free content while the same time also paying for that. If I do, I will switch to Yahoo. |
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KeyWord Search Ranking System
Written by Paul Andrew Celine from Hong Kong on 7/29/2001
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| I like their portal very much, I am a Chinese-French mix and I found the site has many interesting features. In China, only Sina seemed to obtain this kind of comprehensiveness. I particularly like LycosAsia's word ranking, hey, most of the users actually going and searching for sex related pages, but this is true in Asia, as ACNel. NetRatings stated a few months back. |
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Merge
Written by Drake from Hong Kong on 6/20/2001
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| Merging with former competitors and one of the China's major ICP has been a way to stay in the game, but Lycos really need to cut down their burn rate in promotion since the corporate budget for the global on-line advertising is cutting back this year. |
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Over expansion
Written by Karili Wastson from Hong Kong on 3/27/2001
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| Lycos has expand too quick and seemed they have lost their focus now. The expansion into China and acquisition of MyRice.com is totally a wrong decision. US leading portal Yahoo’s stock has dropped more than 95% and most Chinese ICP’s is below US$1.00, Lycos can even acquire Sina or Sohu if they waited a bit longer. Besides, 90% of Lycos’s clients are dot-coms and the current situation will accelerate its death inevitably. |
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Cool site!
Written by Cornell Wee from Hong Kong on 2/13/2001
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| I like this site for the fast search engine, sports news, IT news and other cool channels. |
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