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Hotbot UK back to Inktomi

Is this permanent?

         

makemetop

1:11 am on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)



Hotbot UK has switched back to INK results. The old free submission form is back too! I wonder if this is for a while - or just a replacement while something else is cooking?

engine

1:17 am on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hmmmm, that's only just happened and I cannot work out why.

Crazy_Fool

1:35 am on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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well spotted - just added another couple of sites :)

4eyes

1:43 am on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Very odd.

I always liked Hotbot UK - no good reason, results were poor and the colour scheme burnt yer eyes.

I guess it is the sheer futility of it that appeals to me.

I mean, hotbot.com get few enough visitors, so keeping a different .co.uk version is kind of odd.

So I use it every now and then, just for old times sake.

I guess this says more about me than it does about them.

[added]
I just did a few submissions as well - probably just submitting to void - Ah, No, look at that, they say my sites will appear within 30 Days.

Whoopee - no more paid inktomi needed ...ahem, best not hold my breath, eh lads ;)

tigger

6:52 am on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Yeah but lets face it hotbot could be offering users 10p a search and I'm sure they still wouldn't drive any traffic our way. I wonder if there still be around this time next year I wouldn’t like to put any money on it

markd

3:37 pm on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Maybe the first Ink/Yahoo scalp?

OK, more of a small, shrunken head than a major scalp :)

caine

3:39 pm on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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You say that Mark,

but hotbot, are a lycos company, so ink being bought by yahoo, is not all that logical for hotbot to start showing ink serps.

markd

4:42 pm on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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You're right of course Caine!

It's just that previously my Ink PFI had gone great guns in HotBot with almost no Lycos listings and then with the recent change my pages disappeared.

In checking positions this weekend I have seen that the Ink pages are right back in there - and still not much to speak of in Lycos!

caine

4:48 pm on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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~Though saying that mark, the other thread that is running regarding the Yahoo buy of Ink [webmasterworld.com],

has brung out some interesting idea's > so logical implications are from inside a black box (my house office), and may not count at all.