Hotbot

is it dead?

[shuffler]

Hi all,

For a long time I've considered Hotbot to be in my 'A' list.

I'm not sure why I thought this though as I get more traffic from Dogpile and Metacrawler to name a few!

Does anyone get decent traffic from Hotbot these days?

Thanks

[engine]

"decent" traffic is arguable. Although, I've seen some joy from hotbot uk recently. Not sure why as it's been pretty quiet there.

[jeremy goodrich]

I use it to check on Inktomi...but then, that is only for marketing web sites and not for searching. Honestly, I don't really see how somebody would waste their time, not when we have Wisenut search engine [wisenut.com] and of course, Google.

I would imagine there is a little traffic to be had, buried underneath the inktomi XML feed, direct hit, and sometimes, DMOZ. But I believe it is probably very, very little. imho

[Brett_Tabke]

Direct Hit is about the only way I know into Hotbot these days. If you can pull a good Direct Hit listing under a quality Kw, it will stream across Jeeves, Msn, At&t, Lycos, and Hotbot. It's one of the few "gold standard" referrers left going.

[Jag]

Humm... I just checked the guy # 1 in Direct Hit is always at top in most of the search engines. How I should proceed to get a descent direct hit ranking? I think it will take time but I need to make sure I am heading in right direction. Thanks to everyone for help.