Lycos Announces the Most Popular Valentine's Day and Love-Related Search Terms

of 2006

Valentine's Day Gift Baskets and Love Poems Top List

Searches for Romantic Gifts for Him Outnumber Gifts for Her, for Second

Straight Year

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, Most-Searched Couple, with Web Users

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Lycos, Inc.
(http://www.lycos.com), a leading media destination for creators and
consumers of quality content, today announced the most popular
Valentine's Day-related searches based on The Lycos 50
(http://50.lycos.com), a weekly list of the most popular people,
places and things Lycos users search for every day. For a complete
list of The Lycos 50 top Valentine's Day searches of 2006, and for
in-depth commentary of The Lycos 50 Daily Report, go to
http://50.lycos.com. Readers of The Lycos 50 can also share their
thoughts on Internet trends and pop culture on The Lycos 50 Blog
located at http://lycos50.tripod.com/blog/.

The Lycos 50(TM) Top 10 Valentine's Day Search Terms for 2006:

1) Valentine's Day Gift Baskets 6) Valentine Lingerie

2) Valentine's Day Gifts for Him 7) Valentine Verses

3) Valentine's Clip Art 8) Valentine's Day Customs

4) Valentine Cakes 9) Valentine Candy

5) Valentine Poems 10) Valentine's Day Cards

The Lycos 50(TM) Top Love-Related Search Terms of 2006:

1) Love Poems 6) Love Letters

2) Love Quotes 7) Love Stories

3) Love Songs 8) Love Horoscopes

4) Love Spells 9) Love Song Lyrics

5) Love Calculator 10) Loopy Love.com

The Lycos 50(TM) Most-Searched Couples:

1) Britney Spears/Kevin Federline 6) Jennifer Lopez/Marc Anthony

2) Eminem/Kim Mathers 7) Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt

3) Zac Efron/Vanessa Anne Hudgens 8) Madonna/Guy Ritchie

4) Anna Kournikova/Enrique Iglesias 9) Bow-Wow/Ciara

5) Beyonce Knowles/Jay-Z 10) Sienna Miller/Jude Law

Notes of Interest:

Valentine's Day searches have increased 564 percent over the past
week. This year, searches for Valentine's Day began to spike during
the week of Jan. 9, three weeks earlier than in previous years.

"If web search activity is any indication, expect to see a big
drop-off in animated Valentine's Day e-cards arriving in an email box
near you," said Dean Tsouvalas, writer of The Lycos 50. "Last year,
Valentine's e-cards were the number one most popular
Valentine's-related search with Lycos users, while this year, they
dropped 175 percent, falling completely off our top 10 list."

The most-searched Valentine's Day search query for 2006 was
Valentine's Day gift baskets, while flowers topped the list this year,
as the most popular Valentine's Day gift, generating four times more
search activity than chocolate, and twice as popular as jewelry.
"People also seem to be getting more creative in sending flowers to
their special Valentine this year," Tsouvalas continued. "Search
queries for sending flowers online jumped 401 percent over the past
three weeks. We also saw a huge increase in searches for flower seeds
and flower bulbs in association with Valentine's Day."

Meanwhile, searches for gifts for him dominate searches for gifts for
her again this year, generating 50 times more search activity. The
most popular Valentine's Day gifts for him include searches for:
watches, jewelry, cologne, poker toys and golf items.

And when it comes to love, searches for love poems outnumber all other
love-related searches nearly three to one. "We can't be sure if it's
the love poems pushing Britney and Kevin to the top of our Valentine's
Day list this year as the most-searched couple, or the never-ending
tabloid headlines, but Mr. and Mrs. Britney Spears continue to rock
the online world in search popularity," Tsouvalas added. "Britney and
Kevin generate four times more search activity than the next
most-searched couple, Eminem and Kim Mathers."

About Lycos, Inc.

Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Daum Communications Corp., a leading Internet portal and e-commerce
destination in Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian
markets. Lycos, Inc. creates and operates search, community and
technology lifestyle sites including Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Wired.com,
Tripod.com, Angelfire.com and Quote.com. Other Lycos products and
sites include Lycos Mail, Gamesville and GetRelevant. Lycos was
acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has
its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum Communications
Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ: 035720, http://www.daum.net.

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