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Hot or Not

Hot or Not is a website that allows users to rate each other's attrativeness on a scale of one to ten.

It was founded in October, 2000, by two Silicon-Valey based engineers named James Hong and Jim Young. The site was originally called Am I Hot or Not, and it became very popular. The site allowed people to sumbit their pictures, and vistors would rate them on a scale of one to ten: ten being hot, one being not.

Within a week of launching, the site had reached the level of serving almost 2 million page views per day. Within a few months, website even penetrated the Net Nielsen Rating[?]'s Top 25 advertising domains, falling right behind CNet[?] and NBCi[?].

In order to keep up with rising costs, Hong and Woung added a matchmaking component to their website called "Meet Me at Hot or Not".

Later the website's domain name was changed to hotornot.com, which was considered a poor marketing move by many given the enormous name recognition of amihotornot.com. Despite the change, the site remains very popular.

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