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Lights off for Fireball and Hotbot.de

         

heini

12:47 pm on Mar 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Not surprisingly and discussed here previously Lycos Europe decided to shut down it's daughter Fireball.de. Fireball is one of the oldest and best known german seach engines. For background info see here:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum18/419.htm [webmasterworld.com]

According to WuV [wuv.de] further restructuring in the german division of Lycos.Europe will also mean an end to Hotbot.de.
The community portal Angelfire is also vanishing.

heini

9:38 am on Mar 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



UPDATE
Lycos.de today confirmed Hotbot.de is going to be shut down. In the course of restructuring the huge german Lycos group Hotbot, which always remained a marginal SE in Germany, will completely vanish.
Another loss for Inktomi.

Meanwhile the confusion concerning the fate of Fireball [webmasterworld.com] continues..