#1 Search Engine: HotBot
Joseph Cadieux (sufflib@tiac.net)
Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:09:47 -0400
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:09:47 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970624194634.007b2810@tiac.net>
From: Joseph Cadieux <sufflib@tiac.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: #1 Search Engine: HotBot
<center>--PC Computing Search Engine Challenge--
</center>
This second annual event held at the NetWorld + Interop 97 trade show
would answer the question: What's the best Web search engine for business
use?
Vying for the title were the top four search engines used by millions of
Web surfers every day: AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, and Infoseek.
PC Computing asked the gurus behind these powerful search engines to
fight for the coveted title. In short, the world's expert Internet
searchers battled it out with the powerful engines they created.
Rules to make it a fair fight, we held the contest over two days and
eight heats. With a total of 30 possible points, the engine with the
highest score at the end of the eight rounds would be crowned the winner
of the PC Computing Search Engine Challenge.
Some of the sample challenge questions:
In what year were the first faxes sent?
When will an Elvis movie be on TV within the next two weeks?
What's the German translation for double down?
Where can you find a radio-controlled watch that always displays the
correct time?
What's the lowest round trip fare from Chicago to Los Angeles?
What's the cost of a real Faberge egg?
The final standings: HotBot, 13; Excite, 12; AltaVista, 6; Infoseek, 4.
Full text, and 40-question challenge test at:
http://www4.zdnet.com/pccomp/srchoff/srchoff.html
This article was edited for ConnTech.