- PART I: SEARCH BASICS
- CHAPTER 1, Search Engines and How They Work
- CHAPTER 2, Unique Keywords
- CHAPTER 3, Basic Search Tools
- CHAPTER 4, Tips and Techinques
- PART II: THE BIG SIX SEARCH ENGINES
- CHAPTER 5, AltaVista
- CHAPTER 6, Google
- CHAPTER 7, HotBot
HotBot was created in 1996. A joint venture between Wired Digital (creators of Wired magazine) and Inktomi. It was acquired byin 1998 by the company that owns Lycos.Inktomi comes from an Lakota Indian legend about a spider. HotBot, AOL search, and MSN search use the Inktomi database.Wired Digital, Inc.
San Francisco, Calif.
415-276-8400
www.hotbot.com-
THE HOBOT HOME PAGE
HotBot accepts special punctuation marks and boolean
operators and also allows use of radio button selections.
The HoBot home page
Search form
Tools for refining a search
Web Directly, HotBot's web directory allows browsing
( no searching ) 14 subject catagories operated by the
Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) it is similar to
the one used by Yahoo.
Other search tools, allow searching 'news headlines',
'e-mail addresses', 'white pages', 'yellow pages',
'stock qoutes'. - SEARCHING WITH HOTBOT
table 7.1 shows the HotBot quick reference guide
To enter a HotBot search query:
To make your search case sensitive:
To do a wildcard search: Use an (*) or (?) with
two or more characters in your search term. A (?)
looks for 1 character and a (*) looks for two or more.
To view your search results:
- IMPROVING RESULTS WITH FIELD SEARCH
To do field searching with advanced search:
To do field searching with meta words:
table 7.2 shows the HotBot META search reference guide - CUSTOMIZING HOTBOT
To customize HotBots search form:
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THE HOBOT HOME PAGE
- CHAPTER 8, Lycos
- CHAPTER 9, Northern Light
- CHAPTER 10,Yahoo
- PART III: OTHER GENERAL-PURPOSE SEARCH ENGINES
- CHAPTER 11, AOL Search
- CHAPTER 12, Excite
- CHAPTER 13, MSN Search
- CHAPTER 14, NetscapeSearch
- PART IV: SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES
- CHAPTER 15, Deja for Newsgroups Searches
- CHAPTER 16, Topica for Mailing list Searches
- CHAPTER 17, Argus Clearing House
- CHAPTER 18, Infospace People-finding Tools
- CHAPTER 19, Zip2 for Business Searches
- CHAPTER 20, Other Search Tools from A to Z
- APPENDIX A: SEARCH ENGINES QUICK REFERENCE
- APPENDIX B: INTERNET DOMAINS and COUNTRY CODES
- APPENDIX C: USENET NEWSGROUP HIERARCHIES
- APPENDIX D: WEB SEARCHER'S TOOLKIT
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