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Seeing a report like that, that they did all these things to raise funds and are still not profitable, is there any reason why anyone would invest? Surely the price can only go down from initial offering, right? Unless the price started very low.

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People who invest are betting that the problems can be solved by a new team or when the company is sold to Facebook.

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Imagine thinking that about a company that isn’t even doing remotely as well as Lycos.

That’s right, it still exists and unlike reddit it’s profitable.

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it still exists

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I’d imagine reddit could be profitable too if they stopped throwing money at stupid shit like NFTs and avatars. Selling API access for AI training was a good move in terms of bringing in income since it basically costs them nothing, and they could have totally pulled that off without pissing off half their userbase.

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Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a loooong time.

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Lycos isn’t even a particularly bad search engine. It’s just been overshadowed by bigger players like Google, Bing, Baidu, DDG, Yandex, etc. I imagine that their low traffic helps to lower their operating costs a lot.

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