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HotBot Deskbar review
Reviews We had no trouble installing the HotBot Deskbar; downloading and running the 1.5MB installation file (about three times as large as the other installers in our roundup) took less than a minute. HotBot's toolbar offers the basic search options...
[January 7, 2005, 14:25]
HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 review
Reviews Installing HotBot Desktop is easy: launch the 1.5MB setup file, and you're up and running in a couple of minutes. The HotBot Desktop toolbar is a marvel of space-saving efficiency, with easily identifiable buttons that provide fast access to...
[October 15, 2004, 11:05]
Terra Lycos rekindles HotBot service
News Terra Lycos said on Monday it is relaunching HotBot, combining search results from four engines on a single site. The new HotBot site will allow users to query the FAST, Google, Inktomi and Teoma search engines on one page.
[December 17, 2002, 10:12]
Search and enjoy: 7 search toolbars reviewed review
Reviews HotBot Deskbar We tested seven toolbars from the biggest search engines on the Web: A9, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Google, HotBot, MSN and Yahoo. HotBot Deskbar Toolbar plug-ins for Microsoft's Internet Explorer -- and now Firefox -- make it easy and...
[January 7, 2005, 14:45]
MSN Toolbar review
Reviews MSN Toolbar had a very rough time in our on-the-Web search test, scoring dead last in the breadth department (behind Yahoo, AltaVista, Google, Ask Jeeves, A9 and HotBot, in that order). It was also near the back of the pack for relevancy behind...
[January 7, 2005, 14:25]
Find Popularity
Downloads Find Popularity is a Windows based program that checks the link popularity of the domains to find popular domains in up to six of the largest search engines (AltaVista, Google, Lycos, HotBot, MSN and Yahoo) and also Alexa ranking.
[March 5, 2004, 6:00]
Link Popularity Check
Downloads Link Popularity Check tells you the link popularity of your Web site in Google, AltaVista, AOL, HotBot and MSN Search. Many search engines rank Web sites in part by the site's link popularity. Link popularity is determined by the number...
[March 12, 2007, 7:00]
Wired News snapped up
News Lycos will retain Hotbot, Hotwired and Webmonkey, the other Wired Digital properties. Condé Nast, which bought Wired magazine eight years ago, is paying $25m to acquire troubled online site Wired News from Lycos, the companies said late on Tuesday.
[July 12, 2006, 9:30]
PicGrabber
Downloads Just choose your topic and press start.and while PICgrabber is scanning the web (Altavista, Yahoo, Hotbot, Excite, etc.you can take a look on the downloaded images and movies using the included Imageviewer / Mediaviewer.
[September 19, 2001, 17:30]
Lookout 1.2 review
Reviews Lookout's biggest weakness is that it lacks a file viewer -- an essential tool found in both HotBot Desktop and X1 Search. Lookout is a small, 859KB download that installs in less than 2 minutes -- that is, if your Windows PC is already running...
[October 15, 2004, 11:05]
SubmitWolf
Downloads It includes engines such as Altavista, AllTheWeb, HotBot, LookSmart, MSN, Overture, Slider.com, whatUseek and many others. Trellian has partnered with many top search engines, including AltaVista, AllTheWeb, HotBot, LookSmart, MSN, Overture...
[February 8, 2007, 6:00]
X1 Search 04.08 review
Reviews And at $75, X1 is too expensive for a search utility, particularly when worthy competitors -- including HotBot, Copernic Desktop and Lookout -- are free. X1 installs in a few minutes. It proceeds to index every file and email on your PC, a system...
[October 15, 2004, 11:05]
Lycos looks to lease space
News The company owns HotBot search technology, home page builders Angelfire and Tripod, its blogging site, and online personals site Matchmaker. Web portal Lycos is offering for lease space at its Northern California offices, in what could be a sign of...
[February 9, 2004, 9:55]
Lycos lays off fifth of staff
News The company owns search technology HotBot, home page builder Angelfire and Tripod, its blogging site. Web portal Lycos laid off about 20 percent of its US staff on Wednesday, as it restructured its business.
[February 12, 2004, 15:20]
AltaVista Toolbar review
Reviews AltaVista scored well in our search result tests; it was our first runner-up in terms of breadth, right behind Yahoo; it also won third place in the relevance competition, behind Google and tied with competitors A9 and HotBot.
[January 7, 2005, 14:20]
Free Opera: Start of something big?
News and HotBot, from within their browsers. As previously reported, Opera Software A/S made its first free browser available for download Wednesday. Now the next issue is whether or not the Oslo, Norway-based software maker will also free its BeOS, Mac...
[December 7, 2000, 10:46]
World Cup may cause Net jam
News If you don't have network caching there could be problems," said Tammy Deuster, European marketing manager at Internet software designer Inktomi which created the search engine used by MSN and HotBot.
[June 1, 1998, 11:57]
A Year Ago: Amazon will be next to snap up a portal
News There are other portals and portal wanna-bes that are candidates to buy or be bought, including AltaVista, McAfee Online, PointCast, GeoCities, The Mining Company and HotBot. We have already seen the union of AOL/Netscape, and yesterday @Home and...
[January 20, 2000, 6:00]
Leader: Amazon will be next to snap up a portal
News There are other portals and portal wanna-bes that are candidates to buy or be bought, including AltaVista, McAfee Online, PointCast, GeoCities, The Mining Company and HotBot. We have already seen the union of AOL/Netscape, and yesterday @Home and...
[January 20, 1999, 13:38]
Inktomi focuses on Europe
News With data on the Internet growing at a phenomenal rate -- IDC predicts there will be 8 billion documents on the Web by 2002 -- the need for accurate search engines becomes ever more important. A MORI Online survey found 50 percent of those surveyed...
[May 28, 1999, 15:45]
