HotBot Relaunch

It looks like Hot­Bot has been relaunched. For those not in the know, Hot­Bot was a pretty pop­u­lar search engine in the late 90’s, until Google came along and destroyed them. Ah yes, the dizzy­ing highs and ter­ri­fy­ing lows of the inter­net. It’s kind of supris­ing HoBot allows you to search through Google con­sid­er­ing, well, you know. Ink­tomi, inci­den­tily, is the ser­vice that Hot­Bot runs on, that’s why it’s the default choice for search­ing. The other ser­vices prob­a­bly belong to Lycos, which bought out Hot­Bot a few years ago. This new ver­sion of Hot­Bot comes in standard’s com­pli­ant XHTML, which is a fact only rel­e­vant to all the web design­ers out there. I’m not exactly thrilled with the off-centre lay­out. It took me awhile to fig­ure out they did it on pur­pose. I also noticed you can change the way the page looks. My fav’s are plain text and classic.