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  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Rosie6349

    1 Star What's so hot about it 02/12/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages not many

    Disadvantages Disadvantages limited search

    I have tried many search engines and this is one that I have been checking out. The site loads fast and then you are greeted with loud, awful colors that is enough to turn me off to start with but I decided to give it a chance. After some of the other search engines I have used this one looks like a mini search engine. There are news headlines, stock quotes, e-mail addresses, discussion groups, white pages, and yellow pages to search through. There are search resources, domain names, research service, road maps, find a job, an FTP search, public records and zip codes are some more things you ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    sailormn

    4 Stars Good search 25/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fast search, good results

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    I usually use hotbot for surfing on technical terms, shopping as well. It seems that hotbot has teamed up with lycos since the search engine brings me to a http://www.hotbot.lycos website. Nevertheless, it always returns at least a search or give further suggestions in refining my search area. In one of the articles I have read, hotbot is the most popular search engine used by surfers. It's search response is fast and not a hassle at all compared to other search engines. Well, I seldom come across dead links returned to me by hotbot. Verdict: Fast search, good results ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    flopsy

    3 Stars Serviceable If Not Brilliant 23/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Brings up quite a good variety of sites

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Often brings up broken links

    Hotbot is the search engine I use most often, more for convenience than any other reason. Although it can be slightly slow at downloading results it is an adequate for giving a broad overview of different web sites. I do find it does bring up quite a number of dead links which can be quite annoying and it doesn't appear to be updated all that often. I understand from web designers it is a difficult search engine to be indexed by although this could be just a personal opinion. However, for general searches I would recommend it. ... more
  • 0 of 0 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    stevesm

    4 Stars Hot Botty! 13/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to use.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Hotbot.com is a nicely laid out search engine. The search field in in the correct place so that almost any browser will open it ready to use. In common with some other search engines, results include other links apart from actual web-site links. Unlike some other search engines, they aren't overpowering and are sometimes even helpful. One thing I would of like to of seen is a feature that Lycos uses to great effect. It has the sets of links available at the bottom of the page allowing you to jump straight to the say '20th' set of links if you find that there is too much repetition in the sites ... more
  • 0 of 0 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    biopak

    3 Stars Getting slightly old now 30/07/2000
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Colourful, Easy to use

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Slow, Too much Junk

    I used to use hotbot all the time, It was even voted the best search engine. However, it is now getting very old and slow and is having problems finding sites becasue there is so much junk in there. HotBot Is very nicely presented with an interesting colour scheme, but it is jsut getting a bit too old now. If I were you, i would use altavista instead, much faster and easier. Hotbot often comes up with dead links, old links, information not relevant and others. If you like good looks but not good quality go for it. But i am sure most people would rather have a good quality search engine that ... more
  • 0 of 0 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    markos3

    4 Stars Good search engine 27/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Nice home page

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Less hits than other engines

    Hotbot has a well laid out home page. This is not cluttered and offers a lot of useful options without having to click on extra pages. This makes the search process a little easier. I have found that the speed of hotbot is satisfactory but the number of hits generated during a search is inferior to other, larger search engines. I find I use hotbot as a 'second try' when my main search engines fail to find what I need. This has sometimes paid off with a useful link generated. If you need to do a quick search, and don't want to spend too long searching for options on the engine's home page then ... more
  • 0 of 0 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    assads

    5 Stars Still very hot 27/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Lots of search features

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sometimes slow

    I was first introduced to hotbot.com a few years back. It acts both like a search engine and a web directory. It is a very fast and simple search engine that can be used both by beginners and experts of the net. It offers good advanced search features such as searching ‘all the words’, ‘any of the words’, ‘exact phrase’, ‘the page title’ etc and produces very accurate and relevant search results. The user also has the choice to choose a date period i.e. last week or last year. The only negative side to this search engine is that it can sometimes be slow. Every internet user should try out this ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ashford

    4 Stars Hotbot-Not So Hot 29/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages OK. Will offer you 10,20 or even 100 results.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not the fastest or most reliable results

    Hotbot.com. certainly is a colourful search engine with its rather sickly green,brash red and dull black colours. It also indicates that it can provide you with up to 10,25.50 or even 100 results. Who on earth I wonder wants to actually plough through 100 search results. It is quite quick to access and gets the search results reasonably quickly although it is not as fast as some other search engines. It has a useful navigational sidebar.You can search for stock quotes,news groups, domain names and web sites. For web pages you can designate the type of search,eg, by phrase,URL, title or Boolean ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    WAD1-2-3

    4 Stars A bright search engine 25/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good searches

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    Sounds a rather peculiar site name, which doesn’t do justice to web site, and search engine. Nice flashy colours red and lime green which immediately attracts your eyes. As for the search engine it’s quite handy it comes wit accurate results and very few dead links. The results are produced quickly and they open up relatively fast as well. I like the advanced modifying tool provided by Hotbot.com, it allows you to control the search quite a lot, you can modify the: Date: decide how recent a search you want it Words; page titles, HTML links Language, any language or a specific. Overall a very ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    sid

    3 Stars MMMMMM not convinced 20/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good

    Disadvantages Disadvantages matches

    Hotbot.com is a very flashy search engine, which is quite apparent when you visit the site, green and red. Hotbot is owned by Lycos so the results can be pretty similar, Did you know....... That according to hotbot it: "indexes every word, link, and media file on more than 160 million Web documents and refreshes its entire database of documents every three to four weeks" well then I can't understand why it's so average. The results are nothing to shout out about, they are not exactly fast, or better then google.com It encourages you to take aim and find.....but even the advanced search which ... more
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