(http://www.hotbot.com)
Summary of Features
| Coverage | WWW, Usenet |
| Size of index | 55 million URLs |
| Extent of indexing | Full-text minus stop words. |
| Levels of searching | Just one but offering different capabilities |
| Implied Boolean | YES. It is AND. It can be changed to OR by using the label "Any of the words" |
| Simple Boolean | YES. It can use AND, OR, and AND NOT. Boolean connectors must be in Caps. |
| Proximity searching | NO. Just phrase searching. |
| Nesting (parenthesis for complex searches) | YES |
| Field searching | It can search some fields such as: geographic locations, domain, media type, date range, or site |
| Wildcards & truncation | NO. |
| Capitalization recognition | NO |
| Ignores stop words? | YES |
| Media type search | YES, through the modify options |
| Display of results | Results displayed in order of decreased relevance. Display includes title of the page, summary, url, size of the page, last modified date (or date page was indexed) and relevance in percent. |
| Display options | Full descriptions, brief descriptions, and URLs only |
| Online help | YES |