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  • (Score: 2) by hamsterdan on Wednesday April 08 2015, @11:15PM

    by hamsterdan (2829) on Wednesday April 08 2015, @11:15PM (#168034)

    Hotbot was one of the first search engines I've used.

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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:38AM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:38AM (#168172)

    Same!

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday April 09 2015, @09:43AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday April 09 2015, @09:43AM (#168249) Homepage
    Hotbot took over from altavista, for me.

    At work in the mid 90s, we always used to have a company social at 5pm on Fridays, so work tended to wind down a little before that. The nerdy crowd instigated a web search competition to fill the final half hour - someone, ususally the winner of the previous round, would name a concept, and the winner was the first person to find an image of that on the internet. I won almost every week I participated, and I used Hotbot as my search engine of choice. Nowadays that sounds trivial, unless you name pretty bizarre things, but back in those days it was pretty challenging - some weeks went without a winner.
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