ClickZ reports that Lycos is about to launch a meta-dating site, Lycos Dating Search, where users can search through multiple dating systems at once to try finding a more appropriate person. The service will use a paid inclusion revenue model, charging the dating firms on a click or acquisition basis. Lycos hinted this might be just the first of a series of niche meta-search applications it is readying. Currently, Lycos has signed up True.com, Tickle.com, its own Matchmaker.com and smaller sites like iMatchup.com and LoveAccess. Users of the Lycos Dating Service can see member profiles without themselves first registering with the service.

Lycos is again focusing on search applications after its former parent company Terra Lycos last year tried to remake the firm in the model of a then-trendy social network, but its new Korean buyer, Daum Communications, this summer reset the corporate strategy to refocus on search. It even plans to bring back Lycos's early mascot, a retrieving dog, and the tagline "Go get it."