Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the back-from-the-dead dept.
iosphere writes "Terra Lycos put out a 'new and improved' HotBot today. The interface has been redone with search results courtesy of either FAST, Google, Inktomi, or Teoma." HotBot was one of my favorite search engines, back in the day.
Sounds similar... I remember back in my first year of my Soft Eng degree, some of my friends were in a lab session punching in random band names... although one hit a problem when he tried www.queen.com while the lecturer was walking over to have a look. Let's just say it had nothing to do with Freddie Mercury and Co!
Now to go ontopic for all those mods! I remember the only thing useful about HotBot was the warez related searches, since I always used Yahoo! (but it's results were "cleaner" so to speak)... that is until AstaLaVista and Google came along.
9. Google News... Health. About Google News. Text version... http://news.google.com/ - November 27, 2002 - 63 KB
10. Google Toolbar... The new Google Toolbar increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web and takes only seconds to... http://www.toolbar.google.com/ - November 9, 2002 - 5 KB
Previous | Next
-- "A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
Re:Must be...
by
Anonymous Coward
·
· Score: 1, Funny
Competing with Google by offering Google's results? There's an excellent plan.
Aunt Enginges
by
Anonymous Coward
·
· Score: 4, Funny
> HotBot was one of my favorite search enginges, back in the day.
dear aunt enginges,
it was very nice to see you at thanksgiving at hemos' and i am looking forward to eat at your house this christmas. i asked santa for a new kernel this year, but i have been naughty so i don't know if he'll bring me it. i read an article you might like because it talks about enginges, like your name you know, it is on slashdot, search for hotbox. take care, i love you, eat well.
cousin vicki
I still don't get it..........
by
Ride-My-Rocket
·
· Score: 3, Funny
HotBot was one of my favorite search engines, back in the day.
When exactly was this day that people always talk about?!
Re:Not a search engine..
by
IIRCAFAIKIANAL
·
· Score: 4, Funny
To me that is the equivalent of sticking slashdot in a frameset with your name on the top frame, and claiming you have a new news site for geeks.
To me, it's like getting people to submit tech news to your site, linking it, and encouraging them to discuss. Yeah, that would be stupid. [/playful troll]
-- Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Slashdot Mirror
Guess what happens when you type HotBox.com instead of HotBot.com? Not cool when you're at work.... :-(
Hopefully this new and improved HotBot will be comparable to Google in speed. Old one was slow, I thought.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
"HotBot was one of my favorite search enginges, back in the day."
Yeah, but now you have to admit, Hemos, that as search enginges go, Google really holds the cake.
I used to work tech support for an ISP 4 or 5 years ago and there was always this one customer that would call me saying "my hotbot don't work."
I had trouble convincing him there was nothing I could do about it.
--- If we knew half the things we shouldn't we'd stop wishing we knew it all
Make HotBot your own by choosing colors or uploading your own CSS file.
;)
You mean, I can change the oh-so-ugly-it's-Christmas-every-day-of-the-year colors to nice, pretty ones? Maybe I'll go with a Google theme...
1. Google
Web Images Groups Directory News-New! Advanced Search Preferences Language Tools Advertise with Us - Search Solutions - Services & Tools - Jobs, Press, & Help ©2002 Google - Searching 3 083 324 652 web pages
http://www.google.com/ - December 9, 2002 - 3 KB
2. Google
http://www.google.de/ - December 6, 2002 - 4 KB
3. Google Groups
Search message board communications or browse for topics by category.
http://groups.google.com/ - November 13, 2002 - 6 KB
4. google
http://www.google.com/custom - October 16, 2002 - 12 KB
5. Google
http://www.google.fr/ - November 29, 2002 - 4 KB
6. Google
New!
http://www.google.co.jp/ - November 11, 2002 - 4 KB
7. Google
http://www.google.ch/ - November 30, 2002 - 4 KB
8. Google
http://www.google.it/ - November 29, 2002 - 4 KB
9. Google News
http://news.google.com/ - November 27, 2002 - 63 KB
10. Google Toolbar
http://www.toolbar.google.com/ - November 9, 2002 - 5 KB
Previous | Next
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
Competing with Google by offering Google's results? There's an excellent plan.
> HotBot was one of my favorite search enginges, back in the day.
dear aunt enginges,
it was very nice to see you at thanksgiving at hemos' and i am looking forward to eat at your house this christmas. i asked santa for a new kernel this year, but i have been naughty so i don't know if he'll bring me it. i read an article you might like because it talks about enginges, like your name you know, it is on slashdot, search for hotbox. take care, i love you, eat well.
cousin vicki
HotBot was one of my favorite search engines, back in the day.
When exactly was this day that people always talk about?!
Aww I'll miss the retina searing green red and blue primary color clusterf*ck they used to be!
-- Insert wisdom here:
Synergy.
I write in my journal
To me, it's like getting people to submit tech news to your site, linking it, and encouraging them to discuss. Yeah, that would be stupid.
[/playful troll]
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.