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HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6

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The good: Integrates searches of your hard drive and the Web into one interface; includes a file viewer and RSS newsreader.

The bad: Quirky performance; weak help section.

The bottom line: Lycos's HotBot Desktop provides a glimpse of the future, combining desktop and Internet searches, but other apps actually deliver these features now.

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  • Reviewed on: 10/11/2004
  • Released on: 08/21/2003
Lycos's HotBot Desktop provides a glimpse of the future of PC search. Unlike Lookout and X1 Search, which comb through only your local drives, HotBot Desktop merges Web and hard drive search into one compact interface that fits inside an Internet Explorer toolbar. It also provides an RSS newsreader, handy for staying up-to-date on news and blogs from around the Web. You can index and search RSS feeds, too. Even better: the HotBot Desktop download is free.

Installing HotBot Desktop is easy: launch the 1.5MB setup file, and you're up and running in a couple of minutes. The HotBot Desktop toolbar is a marvel of space-saving efficiency, with easily identifiable buttons that provide fast access to popular tools including HotBot's search menu, newsreader, and pop-up blocker. A single search window allows both Web and local searches. How does HotBot Desktop know where to search? A drop-down menu to the right of the search window lists several options, including Search the Web, Search E-mail, Search Files, and so on.


The free HotBot Desktop toolbar, which runs inside Internet Explorer, allows you to search both the Web and your local drives.

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