HotBot was an American web search engine owned by Lycos. It was launched in May 1996 by Wired magazine. During the 1990s, it was one of the most popular search engines on the World Wide Web. HotBot was launched in May 1996 by HotWired, a tool providing search results served by the Inktomi database. The search engine was co-developed by Inktomi, a four-month-old start-up staffed by University of California, Berkeley students. HotBot was launched using a "new links" strategy of marketing, claiming to index the entire web weekly, more often than competitors like AltaVista, and its website stated it being the "most complete Web index online" with 54 million documents. Its colorful interface and impressive features (e.g. being able to search with any entered words, or an entire phrase) drew acclaim and popularity. More information...
According to PR-model, hotbot.com is ranked 1,029,865th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 596,056th in English Wikipedia.
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