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Companies can pay money to be placed higher in the search results.
Non-paid results come the from Inktomi search engine. These include phrase, keyword, title, person, and timeframe as well as 9 major languages and other options. HotBot is powered by the Inktomi search engine, which is also used by other services. It is owned by Lycos as a separate search service. It consistently provides quality results in response to many general and broad searches and also has an impressive human-compiled directory of web sites.