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PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 03 2001,08:11  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
can these people do anything wrong? no doubt most of u who use it will have noticed that they've added an image search. before i was stuck with using crapy altavista but googles one not only takes you to the page where the picture is but isolates it and allows you to view it seperately!

plus its kickass for cheching out pr0n!

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Google kicks ass, I just think they could have done it sooner..... I mean Hotbot had shit like that(well, okay not quite as cool) for searching pictures, audio,video, and a really flexible word search, back in 1997.

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They've had the image search for quite some time, it was just tucked away in the 'advanced search' page.

Wow, hotbot, not used them since I used to have a homepage with them (that was about 97, lol)

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I think the only reason google has had a better time of being a search engine is that it has had a catchy name, combined with not trying to be a fuckin portal at the same time-- but I am not going to name names--"ahem, altablista, and yohoo"-- the name hotbot just wasn't mainstream enough to catch on-- except for dorks like me that understood what a bot was.

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Actually, Google got so popular because the results it returned were actually relevent most of the time. The founders did their PhD at MIT on a new web cataloging algorithm (it looks at the number of links to and from a webpage, and ranks webpages accordingly with a recursive (IIRC) algorithm). IE, it doesn't SUCK, and often times gives you the results you want.

edit - Oh yeah, yahoo was never a search engine, just a directory. They contracted with Altavista and now google for searches that don't show results in their database.

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Oop. I stand corrected--- but you have to admit that hotbot did have the ideas right.

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HotBot was awesome, but I tended to use metacrawler. Later on I switched to AltaVista (when it was still altavista.digital.com).
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