- http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp - the
HotBot Add URL page has been discontinued. Lycos, the
owners of Hotbot, are expected to transform HotBot over
the next few months to also use FAST results. Until then,
HotBot receives its information from four major sources.
Hotbot receives Sponsored listings from Overture. HotBot
receives its "Category Results" from the Open Directory.
If available, the first page of HotBot "Web Matches" are
provided by Direct Hit, which ranks pages based on
popularity. The rest of the "Web Matches" are then
provided by Inktomi. The best way to get listed into
HotBot's "Web Matches" is to get spidered by Inktomi. If
your web site then becomes popular enough thru Direct
Hit, your page will appear higher on HotBot's "Web
Matches".
Submission Times - Initially, it can take up to
2 months to get spidered into the Inktomi database via
HotBot. Inktomi will respider every page in its database
on a monthly basis.
The thing to remember is that you must have suitable
URL content and be engineered to beat your competition
within HotBot before you register your pages. Just
registering with HotBot does not assure a suitable
ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide
content to HotBot:
Direct Hit
Inktomi
Open Directory
Overture
The following search engines receive content from
Hotbot:
None
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