At that time, Lycos was a pretty big player in search, with both lycos.com and hotbot.com. Mind you, the search engines that were considered at that time were Lycos, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, AltaVista, and Excite.
HotBot: Use the Block Offensive Content section of the Filter Preferences page. Note that you may need to set this again if you change from using the default "HotBot" search engine that's offered. Lycos: Use the Block Offensive Content section of...
HotBot: Use the Block Offensive Content section of the Filter Preferences page. Note that you may need to set this again if you change from using the default "HotBot" search engine that's offered. Lycos: Use the Adult Filter section of the Advanced...
Hotbot, Lycos, Excite, etc. Lycos, Technorati, Lycos, Technorati, Back then it was "try your search on Altavista, Via Boing Boing, news of his new Butler Firefox extension that among other things: Removes ads from Google pages.
Google's third with a C+, followed by HotBot (C) and Ask Jeeves (D). Most Popular Search Terms 2004: Lycos Happy Belated Birthday to AltaVista By Gary Price, Dec. Last week, December 15th to be precise, was the ninth anniversary of AltaVista's...
Lycos announces that it is to acquire Wired Digital, owner of HotBot. Lycos and HotBot both add editor-compiled results originating from the Open Directory. It is the first major search engine to begin crawling the web since the launch of HotBot...
However, since AltaVista's directory is powered by LookSmart, that gives HotBot's LookSmart powered directory and LookSmart itself second place scores, though they weren't included in the review. Here, Excite and Yahoo get top marks, with Infoseek...
Ask Jeeves, Overture and HotBot are all making moves to get the word out about themselves. In fact, AltaVista already enjoys such heavy grassroots traffic that an TV campaign could push it into seriously rivaling Excite, Go or Lycos for traffic.
Run on over to HotBot.com, and you can easily try all three and Google as well. In fact, that's been standard practice with search engines even before Google emerged, except for a very short period where Lycos, in the early days, only indexed a...
Lycos left HotBot to fester for ages. Overture suggested Google was taking a loss and also dismissed the idea that having good editorial results for partners was necessary (something it flip-flopped on a year later, when buying AltaVista and...
Lycos left HotBot to fester for ages. We're talking, but we haven't actually bought Lycos, says Daum. S.Korea's Daum say may buy Lycos, but no deal yet Reuters, July 29, 2004 http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
Lycos left HotBot to fester for ages. MSN Search Employee Arrested for Allegedly Hacking AltaVista Search Engine Watch Forums, July 12, 2004 http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forum/showthread.php? A former AltaVista employee is accused of taking...
HotBot For example, if a search at Lycos fails to find a match in information from LookSmart, then matches from Yahoo provide answers. Lycos AltaVista The key for the chart is shown first, then the chart itself comes further below, so there's...
Google paid results also appear on Lycos-owned HotBot.com. Lycos also runs its own paid listings in addition to those from Google on Lycos and HotBot. The Yahoo-owned Inktomi search engine no longer operates, though Yahoo-partner Lycos may still...
Lycos HotBot Offers Free DeskTop Toolbar Information Today, March 22, 2004 http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040322-1.shtml Lycos rolls out a new toolbar that lets you search the web and your personal computer, indexing material in Microsoft...
Subtle But Helpful Changes At HotBot, 7/00 FAST Gets Bigger, Partners With Lycos, 2/00 Lycos Changes Listings Format, 12/99 Lycos 50 Features Our Searches,10/99 Direct Hit Debuts at MSN Search, Lycos, 8/99
However, since AltaVista's directory is powered by LookSmart, that gives HotBot's LookSmart powered directory and LookSmart itself second place scores, though they weren't included in the review. Review of the major search engines, with AltaVista...
HotBot is also going to be maintained as a search site. At Inktomi (as viewed via HotBot), Bush is holding firm at number one. It does seem likely that the core capability to search the web will remain at Lycos.
HotBot (Lycos-owned) Google paid results also appear on Lycos-owned HotBot.com. Lycos also runs its own paid listings in addition to those from Google on Lycos and HotBot. Lycos (Main from LookSmart) Lycos has an existing contract with Overture for...
The best way to access it is to visit HotBot. That's why HotBot's such a great tool -- it offers four good search engines all in one place. These are also what you get if you select the HotBot tab. FYI, the Lycos tab gives you AllTheWeb results...
