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In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

  
  Secrets of Search Engine Positioning
HotBot indexes every word, link, and media file on more than 110 million Web documents and refreshes its entire database of documents every three to four weeks.
HotBot has page clustering, which means it lists only one page per web site in the top results.
HotBot allows you to use Meta refresh tags to redirect clients, but keep the refresh timer to 5 seconds or more.
www.hotlaunch.com /secrets2001/hotbot.htm   (471 words)

  
 HotBot Review
Truncation was not working on HotBot from May 2001 for a few months, so if the results seem odd, check to see if it is working.
HotBot searches can also be limited to records that contain a specific Media Type, such as Acrobat, Shockwave, VRML, or Audio.
HotBot has a limit for entering a specific host or domain name as well as a limit by continent (based on domain).
www.searchengineshowdown.com /features/hotbot/oldindex.shtml   (1255 words)

  
 ITworld.com - HotBot revs up with four search engines
Aimed at the tech-savvy user, HotBot will now boast catalogs from four of the more popular search engines on the Web, plus expanded customization tools that users can tweak to better define their query.
Wilde said that Lycos had been working on the redesign of HotBot for over a year, and that the company was pleasantly surprised with the speed of the site's search capabilities given the amount of information it had to cull through.
Until then, the new HotBot still offers an informational oasis for serious searchers, and to kick it off the company is launching a multimillion dollar print and online campaign.
www.itworld.com /AppDev/1634/021216hotbot/pfindex.html   (539 words)

  
 uPromote(TM) --> Web Site Ranking Tips --> HotBot Ranking Tips
HotBot states that it will take up to two weeks to index a page that is submitted to them and it is taking all of that lately - a far cry from what it was a couple of months ago, before they were bought out by Lycos.
HotBot's algorithms where designed by some of the best engineers in the business (my opinion) and are extremely difficult to get a grasp of.
HotBot does not index Alt image tags but does look at text between comment tags so you can use these to get in more keywords and text.
www.upromote.com /hotbot.html   (655 words)

  
 SearchEngines.com - HotBot FAQs
HotBot also has a 75-word limit for the meta description tag, instead of the 200 words or so indexed by most engines.
HotBot also gets listings from ODP, but it doesn't guarantee you'll be listed in a given period of time, like Inktomi does.
HotBot prioritizes the use of keywords in the URL more than other search engines.
www.searchengines.com /authorize/hotbot_info.html   (282 words)

  
 Hotbot Desktop Freeware License Agreement
Lycos is licensing you the right to use the HotBot Software during the time that this Agreement is in effect subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
The HotBot Software is licensed to you for the sole purpose of engaging in personal, non-commercial use and provided that you do so in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
By clicking the "I Accept" box and installing and/or loading the HotBot Software, each user represents and warrants that he or she is 18 years of age or older, is capable of entering into a binding legal agreement, and has read, understands, and agrees to be bound by all provisions of this Agreement.
info.lycos.com /legal/hotbot_desktop_la.html   (1369 words)

  
 Will HotBot's ad blitz work? | CNET News.com
For six weeks, HotBot ads will be seen on a diverse pool of TV programs, ranging from The X-Files to Monday Night Football and sitcoms such as Just Shoot Me. Local radio ads will be introduced in November, and TV ads will reappear in January.
HotBot's initiative to draw in a more mainstream user base may make sense on the surface, given the breadth and reach of advertising on these broadcast media.
The HotBot campaign is aimed at experienced and new Web users alike, and acts as the service's first concerted foray into mainstream households.
news.com.com /Will+HotBots+ad+blitz+work/2100-1023_3-216308.html   (678 words)

  
 HotBot News
Common spoofing techniques include the senseless repetition of words, the inserting of META tags unrelated to the document's content, or the use of words that cannot be read due to their small size or color.
HotBot will index all visible page content, html comments, and meta tags but does not support frames or image maps, and it does not index alt tags.
HotBot uses both the Inktomi engine and the ODP directory.
www.laisha.com /JanZine/hotbot.html   (193 words)

  
 HotBot News
HotBot, a member of the Lycos Network, currently attracts more than 7.1 million users monthly, according to Media Metrix.
On July 1, 1999, the Lycos acquisition of HotBot was finalized.
Hotbot appears to favor shorter pages with prominent keywords.
www.laisha.com /AugustZine/hotbot.html   (126 words)

  
 Submit Corner - Guides - Search Engine Guide - Hotbot Search Engine
Hotbot originally launched in 1996 by Wired Digital and has grown to become a major player in the search engine market.
To this day, Hotbot is powered on the Inktomi engine for their search capabilities and the Open Directory Project for their directory based system.
Hotbot will spider or follow all links it finds on your website and index them into their database.
www.submitcorner.com /Guide/SE/hotbot.shtml   (301 words)

  
 hotbot.htm: How to search the web, by fravia+ hotbot's own   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Apart from Hotbot, Aol, Snap and MSN, Inktomi serves also private databases with its spider.
HotBot has other powerful advanced filters which let you pinpoint precisely what you want, among them: domain search, region search, language search, words to include and words to exclude.
Infortunatly HotBot let's you use 'Any of the Words, Anywhere in the Page' only once, that why I have to search for 'search', 'procurar', 'procure', 'pesquisar' and 'pesquisa' (these words are semantic sinonyms of 'search' in portuguese) in separated queries.
www.searchlores.org /hotbot.htm   (391 words)

  
 HotBot revs up with four search engines
The Barcelona, Spain-based Internet company acquired HotBot in 1999 when it purchased Wired Digital, but it hasn't done much to update the index until recently.
Wilde said that Lycos had been working on the redesign of HotBot for more than a year, and that the company was pleasantly surprised with the speed of the site's search capabilities, given the amount of information it had to cull through.
Until then, the new HotBot still offers an informational oasis for serious searchers, and to kick it off, the company is launching a multimillion-dollar print and online advertising campaign.
www.computerworld.com /printthis/2002/0,4814,76790,00.html   (543 words)

  
 HotBot Redesign: Four Search Engines in One
After a period of benign neglect, Terra Lycos Monday launched a new version of its HotBot search engine, featuring an ad-free homepage and the ability to query four popular search catalogs: FAST, Google, Inktomi and Teoma.
HotBot users are tech-savvy and are searching for answers to specific, often work-related queries, Wilde said.
The new HotBot will also seek to capitalize on the bare look pioneered by Google and recently adopted by Alta Vista and MyWay.com.
www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=1557361   (490 words)

  
 HotBot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
After you enter your keywords in the search box, HotBot requires that you select options from the pull down menus to the left of the screen.
HotBot's relevance ranking will automatically favor documents that contain the greatest number of your search words.
HotBot is a very powerful and easy to use engine that will return a large number of relevant hits.
www.minneapolis.edu /Library/exercises/hotbotinstruct.htm   (768 words)

  
 Realty Times: HomeShark Creates Homes & Loans Search Service With HotBot
HotBot users now have the option to quickly and easily search for available national mortgage rates and listings of homes for sale.
In addition to essential homes and loans search functionality, HotBot customers also have access to HomeShark's discounted mortgages from national lenders, HomeValuation tools to estimate their property's worth, and other real estate resources including tools to help them choose the right mortgage and find a Realtor.
The HotBot shopping directory will give customers access to HomeShark's unique real estate services via HotBot, as well as the company's other sites including HotWired, Wired News and WebMonkey.
realtytimes.com /rtnews/printrtpages/19980603_hotbot.htm   (600 words)

  
 Smart Computing Article - Use HotBot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
HotBot's Jobs Channel (http://www.hotbot.com/jobs) provides a wealth of information for your online job hunt.
HotBot limits results to 100 hits and does not contain all the search options, such as keywords and salary specifications, contained at CareerBuilder's database site.
HotBot's CareerBuilder and Webmonkey Guides are valuable resources to anyone involved in an online job search.
smartcomputing.com /articles/archive/l0506/52j/52j.asp?guid=d1bn1fbo   (1668 words)

  
 HotBot Analysis - Search Engine Optimization 101 - SEO Logic®   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Plus, it was one of the first search engines to allow web masters to put a copy of the engine on their sites.
HotBot's entire search and directory systems are copies of other search engines and directories.
The default search engine setting on HotBot is the HotBot search engine, but you can choose to search Lycos, Google, or Ask Jeeves from the HotBot site.
www.seologic.com /guide/hotbot.php   (296 words)

  
 HotBot's New Desktop Search Toolbar
HotBot's new Desktop Search utility not only searches the web, it indexes files and email on your computer, making them searchable as well.
HotBot web search results open up in a pane to the left side of your browser without changing the page you're viewing.
The HotBot Desktop also features a popup blocker, and the ability to set up custom sites that are then searchable from your toolbar.
searchenginewatch.com /searchday/article.php/3339921   (564 words)

  
 Poynter Online - HotBot vs. Google, Part II
I got a range of responses to last week's column about the new HotBot, from people who loved it to those who despised it.
Nostalgia was in the air as I remembered a much-used Hotbot in that pre-Google era.
Hotbot allowed me to access the advanced filter options on the home page.
www.poynter.org /column.asp?id=32&aid=15974   (361 words)

  
 HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 Reviews. Disk management and compression Reviews by CNET.
Installing HotBot Desktop is easy: launch the 1.5MB setup file, and you're up and running in a couple of minutes.
The HotBot Desktop toolbar is a marvel of space-saving efficiency, with easily identifiable buttons that provide fast access to popular tools including HotBot's search menu, newsreader, and pop-up blocker.
HotBot Desktop's anorexic help section didn't offer much troubleshooting advice to steer us in the right direction.
reviews.cnet.com /HotBot_Quick_Search_Deskbar_3_1_6/4505-3684_7-31077411.html   (438 words)

  
 HotBot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If HotBot recognizes any "spoofing" techniques, such as senseless repetition of words, the inserting of meta tags unrelated to document's content, or the use of words that cannot be read due to small size or color, it will severely penalize a page's ranking.
The specific strategies on this page should be used in conjunction with the general strategies reviewed in Strategies for Higher Rating.
Since it is not know at this time whether HotBot indexes the whole site by crawling through the links, submit the major subsidiary pages as well as the main page to ensure indexing.
commtechlab.msu.edu /humans/kimsimon/hotbot.html   (372 words)

  
 Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Search Page
Hotbot is one of the major search engines on the Internet.
In the default, HOTBOT does search the full text of Internet History Sourcebooks Project documents, but will not search documents linked to from the project which are located off the Fordham web server.
Competes with Hotbot to be the most comprehensive search engine on the web.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/search.html   (968 words)

  
 Geek.com Geek News - The return of HotBot
He believes they are often searching for work-related materials, not "interesting Web tidbits." The new HotBot includes the ability to fine-tune a search with image, date, language, region, and offensive content filters.
The HotBot team also broke down the interface to bare essentials with a sleeker, simpler, Google-like interface that loads faster and is noticeably uninhibited by the banner ads that weighed down the previous incarnation.
I used to love HotBot, but, like many, I got sick of it when it became "HotBanner." The new interface is nice and sleek, and targeted ads don't bother me a bit.
www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2002Dec/gee20021217017816.htm   (1010 words)

  
 Findit! --> HULSE: HotBot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
HotBot is a great search engine which very fast.
If you are a beginner at searching, you'll think that HotBot was made for you guys.
HotBot is a operation by both HotWired, Inc. and Inktomi Corp.
library.thinkquest.org /J001168/lse/hotbot.html   (161 words)

  
 HotBot Search Engine Tutorial
The HotBot search engine supports Boolean logical operators, proximity operators or complex nested search logic.
Although it does not support standard Boolean logic and associated features, the HotBot search form provides sufficient flexibility among its various available options to frame a search query fairly precisely.
This is the input that HotBot will use to perform the search on.
www.netstrider.com /search/hotbot.html   (940 words)

  
 HotBot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was launched using a "new links" strategy of marketing, claiming to update its search database more often than its competitors.
Though competitive when it was acquired by Lycos in 1998, HotBot has in recent years reduced its scope.
Today the website is merely a front end for third-party search engines Ask.com and MSN.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HotBot   (130 words)

  
 HotBot Capsule
Hotbot displays some web results from the Inktomi search portal.
This will give you page acceptance notification and your site is guaranteed to be included within 48 hours.
Site popularity also adds to a site's relevance as Direct Hit actively monitors site popularity and these are incorporated into the top 10 results in Hotbot.
www.searchengineposition.com /info/hotbot_capsule.asp   (282 words)

  
 HotBot Pushes Toolbar with Local-File Search
The HotBot Desktop, a free download available now, includes the typical search toolbar features such as a search query box and pop-up ad blocker.
The HotBot Desktop does not include the ability to search for RSS feeds on the Web, rather it includes a list of hundreds of popular ones from which to choose and lets users type in the URL of an RSS feed.
HotBot Desktop is available for Microsoft Windows 98, 2000 and XP with Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, Jackson said.
www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1552486,00.asp   (1027 words)

  
 HotBot Search From Eureka! Internet Search Engine
My personal estimate of the number of documents on the web is closer to 100 million, so I think their spider has to do some more looking.
Nonetheless, HotBot is the clear leader today in number of web documents indexed.
You may add a URL to HotBot, but I'm not sure what that means.
www.gocee.com /eureka/hotbot.htm   (373 words)

  
 HotBot's time warp | CNET News.com
When CNET News.com called representatives for HotBot to inquire about the apparent time warp, a company spokesman was just as puzzled.
When Levanto checked, he found the dates correct, but the year 1899 kept popping up for several others who were searching using certain versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Representatives at HotBot could not be reached to provide an explanation.
news.com.com /HotBots+time+warp/2100-1023_3-236845.html   (205 words)

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