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Lycos Second Opinion Side Search Tool Gives Consumers Automatic Shopping Search Comparisons this Holiday Season

Users Save Time and Money Comparing Products and Pricing from More Than 14,000
Shopping Sites with Lycos Side Search

WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Terra Lycos (Nasdaq:
TRLY), the global Internet Group, today announced its Lycos Side Search as the
perfect shopping second opinion search tool for busy consumers this holiday
season. Lycos Side Search Shopping results (http://sidesearch.lycos.com/) let
users save time and money allowing them to compare prices from thousands of
trusted stores, review consumer store ratings and find bargains among millions
of products available online.

Lycos Side Search provides a second opinion every time a user performs an
Internet search or shopping search and eliminates the need to visit multiple
sites in order to compare products and pricing for busy holiday shoppers.
Users can easily install Side Search from the Lycos home page
(http://install.sidesearch.lycos.com/install/). Once installed, Side Search
automatically presents highly relevant comparative shopping and Web search
results in a separate browser side panel, without losing the initial search
results on the main browser window, allowing users to immediately compare
results from a number of competitive sources.

A search for DVD Players on any of the major search engines, for example,
provides listings from the initial search, as well as second opinion product
results from Lycos Side Search, giving users immediate access to hundreds of
price comparisons, product reviews and ratings for thousands of products.
When users select a search result from Lycos Side Search, the main browser
displays that page.

"We launched Side Search several weeks ago, and thus far the consumer
response has exceeded expectations," said Tom Wilde, global general manager of
search services for Lycos. "The true appeal of Side Search is to provide a
second opinion when searching, allowing the user to immediately compare search
results so when applied to shopping search, it’s a real value add for the
consumer."

"Since its launch in July, Side Search has helped to drive unique users
back to Lycos Search as evident in recent Nielsen/NetRatings numbers stating
Lycos continues to reach one out of every four Internet users each month,"
said Steve Gross, vice president of marketing for Terra Lycos. "Lycos Search
has also experienced significant growth in unique monthly users, page views
and time spent online, according to the most recent comScore Media Metrix
numbers from October 2003."

Side Search is a homegrown Lycos product based on internal Lycos studies,
indicating the average Web user routinely visits 2.5 search engines per month.
Knowing there are significant differences in search engine results, Lycos
developed Side Search as a way to seamlessly deliver those results to the user
and to enhance their overall search experience on Lycos. Lycos has now
extended the product’s functionality with a new shopping focus.

About Terra Lycos

Terra Lycos is a global Internet group, with a presence in 40 countries in
19 languages. The group, which resulted from Terra Networks, S.A’s acquisition
of Lycos, Inc. in October of 2000, operates some of the most widely visited
Web sites in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and is the largest access
provider in Spain and Latin America. Terra Lycos’ network of Web sites
includes Terra in 18 countries, Lycos in 22 countries, Angelfire.com,
Atrea.com, Azeler.es, Educaterra.com, Gamesville.com, HotBot.com,
Ifigenia.com, Invertia.com, Lycos Zone, Maptel.com, Matchmaker.com, Quote.com,
RagingBull.com, Rumbo.com, Tripod.com, Uno-e.com and Wired News (Wired.com),
among others. Terra Lycos, with headquarters in Barcelona and operating
centers in Madrid and Boston, as well as elsewhere, is listed on the Madrid
stock exchange (ticker: TRR) and on the Nasdaq electronic market (ticker:
TRLY).

Lycos(R) is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University. All
other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Terra Networks,
S.A., Lycos, Inc. or their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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