HotBot used
to be one
of the most complete search engines. Now it mainly provides a portal to other
search engines.
History. The following information describes the HotBot
search engine from a historical perspective.
Make sure you select the option "Boolean
phrase" from the bottom of the "Look
For" menu for boolean searches.
Key Hotbot search features are listed below:
Search
Features |
Function
| Example
| Results
|
Boolean
| space
and mars | both
"space" and "mars" |
|
space or mars
| "space"
or "mars" |
|
space and (mars or venus)
| "space"
and either "mars" or "venus". Always put brackets around OR keywords connected
to AND |
|
space and not mars
| "space",
but no pages with "mars" |
Wildcards |
space and (music or musical
or musician) | space
and music or musical or musician |
Phrases |
electric and "fastest
car" | includes
phrase "fastest car" |
Language
| zéro
| only
French language word "zéro" |
Letter Case |
LaTeX |
only words capitalized
"LaTeX". Hotbot only pays attention to capital letters in the middle of words
|
Links
| Select
"links to this URL" from the drop down menu, and specify a URL: http://www.yahoo.com/
| All
the pages with links to that URL |
Additional
HotBot search options are described below.
- Dates. Limits
results
to pages published within a specified period of time.
- Media. Return only pages containing the specified media types.
- Region. Return only pages from the specified countries.
- Page depth. Enables the user to set the scope of
a search at each site