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Nah HotBot and AskJeeves didn't have a problem back in the day. Google sounded just as ridiculous when it came out.
by CountDrewku 5y ago
Nah HotBot and AskJeeves didn't have a problem back in the day. Google sounded just as ridiculous when it came out.
- iso1631 5y agoDogpile
- jachee 5y agoLycos. Bing.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y agoExcite. AltaVista.
- adolph 5y agoVeronica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine)
- Fnoord 5y agoWith the blink of an 'y', Hotbot was one letter away from something completely different. Although the term NSFW was yet to be invented back then.
- iso1631 5y agoIn another universe, search is run by Hotboy.com, with its hotmale.com email system
- soylentcola 5y agoOne of my first exposures to "typo squatting" was when I accidentally typed in "hotbat" in the early 2000's. It led to some generic porn site with a girl in a tight tshirt holding a baseball bat as a splash image. No other real connection to the name as far as I could tell. Just a run of the mill (for the time) paid porn site.
- m10i 5y agoI'd argue that HotBot is a lot more catchy since 1) it rhymes, 2) it's shorter in length. AskJeeves would also be abbreviated in conversation to just "Jeeves", which is definitely as the original creators intended. "DuckDuckGo" doesn't have these features going for it.