Life has come full circle for Michael L. Mauldin, the creator of LYCOS one of the first search engines. He joined the firm as an Independent Director today.

Now owned by Hyderabad entrepreneur Suresh Reddy, LYCOS is doing much more than what it was doing two decades ago. In general history 20 years is a very short period of time. But in technology, it is different. LYCOS, like many of its peers, had lost out to the later entrants like Yahoo! and Google and went into oblivion.

The Hyderabad-based Ybrant Digital had bought this firm for about $36 million in 2013, breathing life into it. It found value in the brand recall value of the former Internet firm and wanted to use its international expansion, particularly in the Western and European markets.

The firm now offers digital marketing and software services.

It shed its own name to rechristen itself as Lycos on Bombay Stock Exchange.

Mauldin, who founded LYCOS in 1994, also served as its Chief Scientist. He developed the Lycos Search Engine while working on the Informedia Digital Library project at Carnegie Mellon University.

“We are delighted to have him on the board. This appointment brings value to the company in terms of broadbasing the board composition. More importantly this provides us access to Michael's experience and deep insights in the technology domain," Suresh Reddy, Chairman and CEO of LYCOS, said in a statement on Monday.

Since leaving LYCOS in 1998, Mauldin has written two books, ten refereed papers and several technical reports on natural language, autonomous information agents, information retrieval and expert systems.

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