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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by Fnoord on Thursday December 02, 2021 @10:35AM (#29417397)
With the blink of an 'y', Hotbot was one letter away from something completely different. Although the term NSFW was yet to be invented back then.
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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by soylentcola on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:31AM (#29418320)
One of my first exposures to "typo squatting" was when I accidentally typed in "hotbat" in the early 2000's. It led to some generic porn site with a girl in a tight tshirt holding a baseball bat as a splash image. No other real connection to the name as far as I could tell. Just a run of the mill (for the time) paid porn site.
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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by iso1631 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @09:42AM (#29441100)
In another universe, search is run by Hotboy.com, with its hotmale.com email system
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