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HotBot Search Engine Analysis

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No longer the "Wired Search Engine".

HotBot used to be a really cool search engine affiliated with Wired Magazine. It was free, easy to get listed, and provided a quick, down-and-dirty search. Plus, it was one of the first search engines to allow web masters to put a copy of the engine on their sites.

Things change, especially on the Internet.

Now HotBot and the HotWired network are part of the Lycos network. HotBot's entire search and directory systems are copies of other search engines and directories.

Click for free search engine submissions, browse our list of Internet search engines, or read answers to search engine marketing FAQ.

HotBot Search Engine Analysis

URL:
http://www.hotbot.com/

FREE ADD URL:
None.

THE KEY:
Get spidered by Inktomi either by being patient or by paying Inktomi to index your site.

SEARCH RESULTS:
The default search engine setting on HotBot is the HotBot search engine, but you can choose to search Lycos, Google, or Ask Jeeves from the HotBot site. If you use the default setting, at the top of the search results page you will see anywhere from one to six numbered sponsored links. The first four of these links are provided by Overture. The next two sponsored links are the top two bidders through Lycos' AdBuyer program. Below those sponsored links, you will see a bold red heading "WEB RESULTS." These are Inktomi results. To the right of the numbered sponsored sponsored links, you may also see text box ads which look just like Google ads. These are the 3rd through the 6th top bidders through the Lycos AdBuyer program.

Buying into the AdBuyer program gets your sponsored pay-per-click links placed on both Hotbot and Lycos.

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