At this time, Lycos does not have a website submission form for Lycos Search or HotBot.

Lycos InSite is looking forward to offering a new search engine submission product in the near future and is excited to continue to bring search marketing products that offer what you need to drive users to your web site.

You may wish to consider InSite AdBuyer. Pay-Per-Click Advertising with AdBuyer drives targeted, high quality, low-cost search traffic to your website. Promote your business on top internet properties including Lycos, HotBot, Tripod/Angelfire, and more. To learn more, visit: http://insite.lycos.com/adbuyer/overview.asp.

HotBot's search results are based solely on comparing the user's search query to the content of millions of Web pages. We have no list that matches certain search terms or keywords with special results.

Basic factors affecting a page's ranking include the words in the title, keyword meta tags, word frequency in the document, and document length.

We're aware that some people create pages to maliciously "spoof" search engines. Spoofing a search engine makes search engines return pages that are irrelevant to the search, or pages that rank higher than their content warrants. Common spoofing techniques include the repetition of words, the inserting of meta tags unrelated to the document's content, or the use of words that cannot be read due to their small size or color. If HotBot detects search-engine spoofing, it will significantly downgrade a page's ranking.

If you want to put a search box on your site: Click on a design below and then copy and paste the HTML code onto your page:

HotBot Box 1

HotBot 2

Copy the text below and paste it into your web page: <FORM ACTION="http://www.hotbot.com/"> <table width="140" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><img src="http://c.lygo.com/s.gif" width=2 height=1 border=0></td> <td valign="bottom"><img src="http://ly.lygo.com/ly/jw/aff/hb_070_020gw.gif" width=90 height=40 border=0 alt=""></td> <td rowspan="5"><img src="http://c.lygo.com/s.gif" width=2 height=1 border=0></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#99FF33" align="center"><img src="http://c.lygo.com/s.gif" width="1" height="2" border="0" alt=""><br> <input type="text" NAME="query" size="15" maxlength="300"><br> <img src="http://c.lygo.com/s.gif" width="1" height="2" border="0" alt=""><br> </td> </tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#330099" align="center"><INPUT TYPE=image src="http://lygo.com/ly/a/h/hotbot_searchbutton.gif" HEIGHT=19 WIDTH=85 BORDER=0 ALT="Search"></td></tr> </table> </form>

Copy the text below and paste it into your web page: <FORM ACTION="http://www.hotbot.com/"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#99FF33"><img src="http://ly.lygo.com/ly/jw/aff/hb-logo-hz.gif" width=90 height=22 border=0 alt=""></td> <td bgcolor="#99FF33"><input type="text" size="14" maxlength="300" NAME="query"> </td> <td bgcolor="#330099" rowspan="3" align="right"><INPUT TYPE=image src="http://ly.lygo.com/ly/jw/aff/hb-but-rnd.gif" HEIGHT=26 WIDTH=83 BORDER=0 ALT="Search"></td> </tr> </table> </form>

Visit the HotBot Skins for more details on the 3 ways to change the color scheme and layout of HotBot.

It's easy!

Using Microsoft Internet Explorer:

1. Choose Tools - Internet Options.
2. Click the General tab.
3. In the Home page section, enter http://www.hotbot.com/ in the Address box.
4. Click OK.

1. Choose Edit - Preferences.
2. In the Home page section, enter http://www.hotbot.com/ in the Location box.
3. Click OK.

The "saved" searches on HotBot are actually a feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can adjust the settings for what appears in the pull down menu of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Here is information from Internet Explorer's Help Section:

To adjust AutoComplete settings:

You can tailor the AutoComplete feature to save and suggest only the information you want. You can choose whether to use AutoComplete for Web addresses, forms, and passwords, or not use it all. And you can clear the history for any of these.

1. On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options.
2. Click the Content tab.
3. In the Personal information area, click AutoComplete.
4. Select the check boxes for the AutoComplete options you want to use.

• If you are looking beyond 1,000 results, you need to refine your search.
• HotBot will return only up to 1,000 results for a large search query. We strive to provide the most extensive search results possible, but displaying more than 1,000 results can slow down your overall search for relevant hits. HotBot encourages users to refine their searches within 1,000 results for more effective searches.

Additional Teoma advanced search filters will be available on HotBot soon. Some of these new filters include:

• Language Filter -- The Language Filter will support the most common languages, including: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.



• Region Filter -- The Region Filter will allow you to easily filter documents by region.



• Date Filter -- The Date Filter will allow you to limit results to pages published within a specified period of time.

HotBot's top priority is to provide the best performance and highest quality of service on the internet. Unfortunately, the internet is full of malicious users that intentionally attempt to degrade the experience of all other users. To ensure superior and consistent performance for our online users, we deny service in response to these malicious requests.

If you have received the "Error 403" page in response to your request, you may be using software that provides an option for preventing the name of your browser from being sent to our servers. We require this name, known as the "user-agent string", in order to effectively service your web browser request.

Examples of software that provides this feature are Norton's Internet Security and Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm Pro. These products provide our users with beneficial security features to protect them from the same sort of malicious behavior that HotBot is subject to. We do not require our users to disable these products in order to use our site, but we do require that all requests transmit User-agent information. If you are using either of these software packages or something similar, please review your documentation to be sure that you are not explicitly preventing the name of your browser (User-agent) from being sent with your request.

Specific Tools:

Norton Internet Security 2002 To ensure you are not preventing your User-agent information from being sent to our servers follow these steps:

1. Launch Internet Security.

2. Select Privacy Control.

3. Select the Options button at the top of the window.

4. In the window that appears, select Advanced Options.

5. Choose the Privacy tab.

6. Under the Browser Privacy section, be sure that the Browser (User-agent) is set to Permit or Reply. If you choose Reply be certain to include a message in the adjacent box. The default message "Blocked by Norton" should work fine.

• The Host server is non-operational during spidering.
• The URL is submitted without the "http://" prefix.
• The host server contains the robots.txt exclusion tag.

• Pages containing frames require special formatting. See this URL for information on how to structure your tags.
• Pages requiring a cookie will not be indexed.
• Inktomi must be able to resolve the DNS name. If there is a problem resolving the DNS name, use an IP address.
• The URL contains special characters such as: ?, =, %, &.
• HotBot accepts 50 pages per domain per day from the Submit a Web Site page. As a result, submissions from large domains with user homepages often experience problems becoming indexed. HotBot ignores submissions over (the limit of) 50.