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Lycos Eats HotBot

HotBot, a member of the Lycos Network, currently attracts more than 7.1 million users monthly, according to Media Metrix.

On July 1, 1999, the Lycos acquisition of HotBot was finalized.

For information about that move, you will want to see the Lycos section of this issue.

Submission wait time is currently 2 - 3 weeks. Meta tags are used.

Inktomi will spider your site, but needs text links to crawl inside the site as it can't read image maps or navigate frames.

Taken into account when ranking: the words in the title, keyword META tags, word frequency in the document, site popularity, and document length. Hotbot appears to favor shorter pages with prominent keywords.

Popularity is monitored by Direct Hit, and they then proclaim the top 10 results in HotBot.

 

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