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.
Why would someone go to www.hotbot.com to do a google search??? they both are 6 letter urls, so it's not quicker to type.... and it's slower....
So what are their political agendas?
by
nurb432
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· Score: 1, Troll
Now that we have discussed Googles, such as sex ads and gun ads.. what are HotBots' views on restricting legal activites of the individual?
-- ---- Booth was a patriot ----
Why are we wasting precious bandwidth?
by
SteweyGriffin
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· Score: 2, Troll
I realize that I post a lot here, so I've refrained a bit recently.
But I just wanted to say that someone needs to point out the following:
Every competitor to Google adds to the amount of spidering traffic on the Internet
In fact, it's perfectly valid to go one step further: competing with Google constitutes a terroristic denial of service attack (DOS) on the Internet.
I have a lot of friends. One of them is Inoshiro, who started Kuro5hin.org, a Web site that many of you may be familiar with. I've seen his access logs for that site, and 18% of all hits to K5 are from Google's "GoogleBot 2.1" spider.
I'll let you do the math -> every search engine adds 20% load to the Internet.
Do you want to lose 1 out of 5 packets all because of some lame, was-famous-yesteryear search engine called HotBot? What a waste!
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Why would someone go to www.hotbot.com to do a google search??? they both are 6 letter urls, so it's not quicker to type.... and it's slower....
Now that we have discussed Googles, such as sex ads and gun ads.. what are HotBots' views on restricting legal activites of the individual?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I realize that I post a lot here, so I've refrained a bit recently.
But I just wanted to say that someone needs to point out the following:
Every competitor to Google adds to the amount of spidering traffic on the Internet
In fact, it's perfectly valid to go one step further: competing with Google constitutes a terroristic denial of service attack (DOS) on the Internet.
I have a lot of friends. One of them is Inoshiro, who started Kuro5hin.org, a Web site that many of you may be familiar with. I've seen his access logs for that site, and 18% of all hits to K5 are from Google's "GoogleBot 2.1" spider.
I'll let you do the math -> every search engine adds 20% load to the Internet.
Do you want to lose 1 out of 5 packets all because of some lame, was-famous-yesteryear search engine called HotBot? What a waste!