HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 Review– simplifying your PC search
- Monday, November 17, 2008, 11:29
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Lycos’s HotBot Quick search Deskbar version 3.1.6 is a technology that combines your desktop with the Internet searches. In details, HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 combines the Web and the hard drive searches into a single and compact form of interface that is fitted in the Internet Explorer toolbar. You can also keep yourself up-to-date regarding news and blogs of the web by the help of RSS newsreader. The RSS feeds can be searched and indexed as well.
Lycos’s HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 is a freeware product and can be downloaded freely from the web. Easy to install, HotBot Quick Search Deskbar toolbar occupies less space. It includes buttons that are easily identified and offers quick accessing to all the tools contained in the HotBot’s search menu, newsreader option and pop-up blocker option. Both the Web and the local searches can be performed in a single window. There is a drop down menu provided at the right side of the search window which contains a list of a number of options including Search Files, Search the Web, Search E-mail and many more. You do not have to install a standalone newsreader, the RSS reader actually makes you free from doing so.
The HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 provides you the opportunity to search over 200 searching sites from a single searchbox. From the same input, several numbers of useful tools can be accessed. A free browser and folder windows is provided with the HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6, as because it is installed directly to the Windows Explorer Taskbar. The only system requirement for Lycos’s HotBot Quick Search Deskbar is that your system should have Windows 95 or better running on it with Internet Explorer version 5.5 or newer. It is supported by Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows XP Operating Systems.
Despite all its outstanding features, the beta version of HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 has some odds too. It has an indexer that runs only when it is scheduled to do so, but it would not run if demanded. The search engine in turn also is not able to find files that had been indexed earlier. The help menu of HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 is not up to the satisfactory level. There are not much troubleshooting advices to guide the users. No one could stop HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6 from getting the crown of becoming one of the excellent searching tools, once these odds are removed.
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