I've pass hotbot numerous times before however people just don't use it. I heard that it was more of a meta search engine instead of the acutal search engine.

I havent heard of it. So it must not be so popular. Tell us more about hotbot if you had good experiences with it

I have only seen hotbot in checking for site link popularity, although it is always 0.

Again, with the search engines that were popular a number of years ago but have vanished.

so why did they just vanished like that. Seeing how the web and online have grown they should have implemented something like google or yahoo.

I used to use hotbot, then I found out about google. I don't believe it is a meta search engine, but I have usually found better results using google or yahoo.

Why ever use any other engine than google? It has the biggest db and the most sites