LINKS: | - How does Direct Hit work?
Date: 2002-02-14 Source: Search Engine Guide
What the Direct Hit technology does is look at how many times sites are clicked on within the results and ranks them accordingly. If any given site is clicked on enough, it gets put into the top ten "popular" sites.
[Open In New Window] - A Direct Hit on Inktomi?
Date: 1999-02-22 Source: Red Herring
Direct Hit is scoring points in a portal popularity contest. On Monday, Wired Digital's HotBot search engine began serving results directly from Direct Hit.
[Open In New Window] - Direct Hit, Much Ado About Nothing
Date: 1999-02-05 Source: Search Engine World
Direct Hit was billed as the best thing in search technology since the invention of the transistor. Every major tech zine on the net has written stories about Direct Hit Technology.
There's only one slight problem (pssst) it doesn't work very well.
[Open In New Window] - Direct Hit Debuts On HotBot
Date: 1998-09-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
Last issue, I wrote about the Direct Hit system, which measures what search engine users are clicking on to help improve relevancy. Now you can try the system yourself, as it debuted on HotBot in mid-August.
[Open In New Window] - HotBot Gets A Direct Hit
Date: 1998-08-21 Source: InternetNews.com
Wired Digital, producer of the HotBot Web navigation portal, signed a one year licensing agreement to use the Direct Hit
Popularity Engine.
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