- Mon Apr 7 1997 Short Take: Netscape adds HotBot to search page
Netscape will add HotBot to its Search page under an agreement between the two companies. The Search page will launch on May 1.
- Tue Sep 15 1998 Short Take: Yahoo, Netscape to list HotBot's search
Wired Digital signed a deal for subsidiary search engine HotBot to be featured in the search listings of Yahoo and Netscape Communications. HotBot will be listed at the bottom of all Yahoo search result pages with other search providers and on Netscape's Net Search page listing of services. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
- Thu Mar 26 1998 Wired strategy strays from search rivals
Wired Ventures is expanding the shopping area on its HotBot search site, but it is not a sign the company is joining the portal battle.
- Tue Oct 6 1998 HotBot is heart of Lycos deal
Lycos knows that reach equals revenues. That's why search engine HotBot is the crown jewel in its planned acquisition of Wired Digital.
- Tue Sep 30 1997 Short Take: HotBot to launch commerce service
Wired Digital this week will introduce its first commerce capabilities on its family of Web sites, according to the company. Its HotBot search engine will publish pointers to bookstore BarnesandNoble.com, wine shop Virtual Vineyard, Microsoft's Expedia for travel, Cyberian Outpost for computer products, Music Boulevard, 1-800 Flowers, and Wired magazine. Wired Digital will split revenue on sales originating from the HotBot site.
- Fri Feb 11 2000 HotBot's time warp
For some, the dates appearing on Lycos site HotBot.com's search results are showing the year 1899--the same year mystery master Alfred Hitchcock was born.
- Fri May 16 1997 Short Take: HotBot to update more frequently
Search engine HotBot has integrated Inktomi's SmartCrawl technology into its architecture. The newly added technology lets the search engine update its database of 54 million documents twice daily and process up to 10 million documents per day.
- Thu Oct 22 1998 HotBot offers free email, page building
Two weeks after Lycos acquired Wired Digital, search directory HotBot has quietly launched free email and home page builder services.
- Mon Oct 5 1998 Will HotBot's ad blitz work?
Wired Digital is spending upwards of $10 million to advertise its search site on TV and radio, but analysts question the value of the strategy.
- Fri Aug 21 1998 Direct Hit aims to refine searches
The technology firm debuts on HotBot with its aim to refine searches on the major engines through a kind of collaborative filtering.

