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.
can someone explain to me
by
ack154
·
· Score: 1, Redundant
Why search engines use other search engines to search? Doesn't anyone else think that's a bit odd? It's one thing to maybe license google technology or something, because it rocks. But using another search engine from a page of a search engine seems strange.
Although, I guess it can be useful if you just want to search for results on other sites without going to a different page, but when google's already the best, why bother?:)
Slashdot Mirror
Why search engines use other search engines to search? Doesn't anyone else think that's a bit odd? It's one thing to maybe license google technology or something, because it rocks. But using another search engine from a page of a search engine seems strange.
:)
Although, I guess it can be useful if you just want to search for results on other sites without going to a different page, but when google's already the best, why bother?