Lycos left HotBot to fester for ages. A graphical look at how category links for the Yahoo Directory used to reign supreme but now are an afterthought. About.com Links - Automated Link Exchange Backlash - Google Introduces Key Name Search Into...
Finally, the Submit Site link ironically does not lead you to a way to get listed with HotBot in Europe, at least if you try to make use of the "Submit your site to the Lycos Web Index" option. That's because the Lycos Web Index -- AllTheWeb -- is...
Goodbye HotBot Add URL, Hello FAST? HotBot Integrates Popularity Into Top Results, 3/99 Inktomi Launches "Directory Engine", 7/99 It analyzes links from across the web to determine both the importance of a page and the terms it might be relevant for.
HotBot Adds Directory, 3/98 These crawler-based results come from LookSmart-owned WiseNut and appear in the "Results from the Web" area of the LookSmart results page (human-compiled results appear in the "Results from the Directory" area).
HotBot's Swiss Army Knife Deskbar SearchDay, June 24, 2003 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2226131 HotBot has released its Quick-Search Deskbar, which not only provides instant access to the search engine, but is jam-packed with...
Ask Jeeves, Overture and HotBot are all making moves to get the word out about themselves. Why am I getting an "Internal Server Error" when I try to submit to the Open Directory? Overture continues to provide paid listings to Lycos Europe for use...
Hack HotBot http://hack.hotbot.com HotBot has announced a contest for designers to create "skins" to customize the look and feel of the search engine's interface. Some editors at The Open Directory Project are now contributing to a web log that...
The results were as follows: AOL, 290; HotBot, 300; AltaVista, 489; Google, 0. I assumed it was because my Zeus link directory had too many links outside of the narrow theme of my web site, so I deleted over 800 links from it and have been building...
Currently, HotBot presents results from Direct Hit, then the Open Directory and then Inktomi. Last week, HotBot's free Add URL page disappeared from the web site, making it seem likely that it will be results from FAST that will be appearing on the...
Currently, HotBot presents results from Direct Hit, then the Open Directory and then Inktomi. Last week, HotBot's free Add URL page disappeared from the web site, making it seem likely that it will be results from FAST that will be appearing on the...
AltaVista, AOL, Ask, Direct Hit, Excite, Go, HotBot, iWon, Lycos, MSN, NBCi, Netscape & Yahoo n/a AltaVista, AOL, Ask, Direct Hit, Excite, Go, HotBot, iWon, Lycos, MSN, NBCi & Yahoo AOL, Direct Hit, HotBot, Lycos, MSN & Netscape to 8
In the same way, Terra Lycos uses Inktomi for its HotBot service while FAST Search gets to power the Lycos properties. Want to add the Open Directory to your own web site? Should this happen to you, make a note of the category name, search for it...
AllTheWeb, AltaVista and Inktomi (as accessed via HotBot) use the title: command, where you follow the command with the word you want to find in the title of documents. AllTheWeb, AltaVista & Inktomi (via HotBot)
For example, if you were to be listed with the Open Directory or Inktomi, then you might appear at HotBot, which uses both of those data sources. Remember the userid= part in the HotBot links mentioned above?
Is HotBot's add URL function dead? Back in 1995 and 1996, it was counted among the major players, a primarily-human powered directory to the web. LookSmart information remains displayed under the "Web Directory Sites" heading, and Inkomi's crawler...
HotBot and Google are two other major search services that make use of Open Directory information, though not to the strong degree as do the services named above. How HotBot Works Major licensees include AOL Search, Netscape Search, Lycos...
Note that at HotBot, you'll need to search on this and then maybe click to the second page of results, which are powered by Inktomi, to get the correct response, since the first page may still come from Direct Hit.
Submitting your page to Inktomi via the free Add URL pages of its partners such as HotBot causes them to incur a ranking penalty. In terms of search, the layoffs had the most impact on Excite's directory listings, rather than its web wide crawling.
Submitting your page to Inktomi via the free Add URL pages of its partners such as HotBot causes them to incur a ranking penalty. In terms of search, the layoffs had the most impact on Excite's directory listings, rather than its web wide crawling.
Submitting your page to Inktomi via the free Add URL pages of its partners such as HotBot causes them to incur a ranking penalty. In terms of search, the layoffs had the most impact on Excite's directory listings, rather than its web wide crawling.
