The French search engine Mozbot is managed by three french companies: Abondance (http://www.abondance.com/), Brioude Internet (http://www.referencement-2000.com/) and Raynette (http://www.raynette.fr/).

Or more precisely by Frank, Sebastien and Olivier, three friends who wanted to share their pasts and their search engine experiences to put their ideas into practice with Mozbot.

The information on the results pages is provided by our partners:
- Google for the “results links” and “sponsored links” sections
- Open Thumbshots for the “page thumbnails” feature
- Alexa for the “Info” section.

Mozbot was previously called Reacteur.com. Its initial orientation, when it was created in 2003, was as a laboratory for ideas related to searching the Web for information. It allowed us to test many search functionalities over the months and has led to us having a better understanding of how search engines work. We take this opportunity to warmly thank our early partners who were a great help during this period: Espotting (sponsored links), Exalead and Dir.com (Web links).

Then, as a second stage, we had the opportunity to sign a contract with Google for the “search results” section and for “sponsored links”. We then thought to ourselves that it would be interesting to display these results whilst modestly adding a few extra ideas that we would like to find on a search engine when we do our own searches on the Web but which Google does not offer (yet?). As the project had an international scale the name “reacteur” was considered to be too French and was no longer suitable. The search engine was renamed as “Mozbot”.

Furthermore, it has been completely rewritten and we have added functions for displaying thumbnail screenshots of pages listed in the results, personalized black listing systems, information on ownership of sites listed in the results, etc. We’ll leave you to discover all these functions as you conduct your searches but a list is also available here. The site will evolve from day to day with all the ideas that we still have in our heads.

It’s up to you now to test it and give us your own opinion here, and tell us about your ideas. We will be happy to try them out on Mozbot. At the same time, you should be aware that Mozbot is also the name of a Mozilla development project to produce an IRC bot and you can get more information on it from here. The two Parties have agreed to share the name of Mozbot and we thank the bot development team for this.

Cheers,

Olivier ANDRIEU

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