| 21. | The same goes for all of the other market leaders _ Yahoo, Lycos, Google, Hotbot.
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| 22. | HotWired then proceeded to launch dozens of other Web sites, including Webmonkey and the search engine Hotbot.
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| 23. | In my experience, I more often find what I am looking for by using either HotBot or AltaVista.
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| 24. | Hotbot is useful for finding popular Web sites, and Alta Vista is good at ferreting out obscure information.
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| 25. | This practice is also followed by Lycos, Alta Vista, Hotbot, Metacrawler and scores of other sites.
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| 26. | Direct Hit runs its own search engine and also licenses its technology to others, including HotBot and Lycos.
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| 27. | Hotbot, which led with a 34 percent coverage in the previous study, is down to 11 percent.
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| 28. | Now, it has ambitious plans to generate more revenue from its HotWired site and its HotBot web search engine.
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| 29. | "And in the race to become a portal, HotBot hasn't really geared up ."
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| 30. | And this trick works in many search sites _ including Yahoo, Alta Vista, Hotbot, Excite and Infoseek.
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