http://www.hotbot.com

[Kris Ecklund]

"Hotbot," a search service/engine, is in a public beta version at 
	http://www.hotbot.com

(Announcement provided by EDUCOM Edupage listserv of 5/23/96, quoting a 
New York Times article of 5/21/96.)

Interesting for the onscreen search "form" matrix (my personal observation) 
and implementation of "hive computing" (per the NYT info).  Onscreen 
credit is given to Inktomi.  Without hunting up the infamous _WIRED_ 
article that began with some offhand remarks about librarians and the 
Dewey Decimal System, I seem to recall some coverage about the promise of 
hive computing in fast retrieval speed.  This is one to watch.


Kris Ecklund, Librarian
California State University, Northridge  91330-8327
kristin.ecklund at csun.edu