HotBot is a fast, comprehensive, robot-based web index run by Wired . It is perhaps the largest web index and lists over 35 million documents. The HotBot user interface supports basic searching features, such as Boolean operators with nesting. Good navigational aids. Peculiar results due to erratic treatment of Boolean and exact phrase searches.
Large images slow down access and waste screen space.
Northern Light is a robot-driven search engine of the worldwide Web. It has two main differences from other search engines. Northern Light is especially good when looking for academic information. Users can search for web pages, Usenet posts and recent news stories from Reuters in plain English or by keywords. Additional features include a catalog of reviewed sites, Newstracker to help you keep on top of your news, a talk room , and city.net with guides to over 4,000 destinations worldwide.