Hello Lycos iQ’ers,
we have an important information for you:
In the night from Thursday (24.07.08) until Friday (25.07.08) between 22.00 - 3,00 o’clock
we will accomplish regular maintenance at the server structure of Lycos iQ.
For this reason the service will not be available for a few hours.
If everything runs smoothly, you can use iQ again in the [...]

Dear iQers,
With today’s update we will put a completely refurbished suggestion configuration online, which I would like to introduce to you. The usability of our old configuration page was rather bad: The constant addition of new tags made it necessary to maintain the configuration manually each few days by clicking through long lists of new [...]

Dear iQ’ers,
…but only for users, who are not logged in. We will only present text ads, which will be placed in the search results and on the single question view. This marks the beginning of a first test with ads on Lycos iQ – in a quite modest way. We will keep you updated in [...]

Hi Lycos iQ’ers,
This night at 0 am we will accomplish regular maintenance at the server structure of Lycos iQ. Within the maintenance slot some changes at the database servers are made and software versions will be updated. For this reason the service will not beavailable for a few hours. If everything runs smoothly, you can [...]

Hello Lycos iQ’ers,
Due to our performance improvements we found out, that „My Suggestions“ is a very important issue which has to be changed. To get a quick performance improvement, we reduced the maximum number of suggestions from 1.000 to 200 per user.
These changes were done yesterday. After solving a small bug that appeared after the [...]

Dear IQ Users,
As you can see, we now have a new Forum available and a competition currently underway to win some Lycos Doggies!
Check out the Forum if you want to chat to fellow IQ’ers away from the Question and Answer structure, and see if you can win a Lycos Dog by posing that puzzling question [...]

Terms and Conditions Lycos iQ Birthday-lottery
As many of you know, Lycos celebrates its first birthday on February 15th.
We at iQ would like to thank you all for using iQ and for many of you, sticking by us from the beginning. You have made the product what it is today, and we look forward to [...]

As promised we changed the ratings, which were/are produced by the automatic answer rating. The new automatism works like that:

“helpful” rating, if 0-2 people clicked the “good answer” link
“top” rating, if 3 or more clicked.

All of the “not helpful” ratings will be corrected and set to either helpful or top. The percentage of helpful answers [...]

With today’s release Lycos iQ gets a fantastic new feature – image and video answers. From now on it is not only possible to add bookmars to your answer but also an image or a video to enrich your answer and clarify the meaning. This allows much more creativity and you can explain complex issues [...]

With this week’s update there was an important change in the rating of questions and answers.
From now on, all registered users can vote for any answer (besides their own) by clicking “Rate as good answer” below that answer.
Clicking on the symbol above that (showing the current number of votes) you can see which users did [...]