Why is hotbot a gray bar?

[Zapatista]

I checked hotbot and noticed it was a gray bar. I refreshed several times and still nothing. A link checked revealed no backlinks.

What gives?

[Macguru]

The real homepage is [hotbot.com...] (with capital "D"), shows PR 5 and 20 backlinks.

It is a good example of a search engine beeing clueless on how search engines works. ;)

[JonB]

same is with [msn.com...] - it always displays grey bar.

[Macguru]

AlltheWeb is showing 1,928,849 backlinks to link:http://www.hotbot.com .

Ironically, that is what I found on MSN custom 404 error page.

Check the spelling of the URL to make sure the address is correct (capitalization and punctuation are important) and then click your browser's Refresh button.

;)