A
World Wide Web search engine developed collaboratively by Inktomi Corporation and HotWired, Inc., the publisher of Wired magazine. Rather than using a few
mainframes or
supercomputers to search and
index Web pages, HotBot uses many
workstations working in parallel, what they call a
Network of Workstations (NOW). HotBot claims that this strategy allows them to keep up with the exponential growth of the Web better than competing search engines.
