Inktomi
Inktomi Search Engine Analysis
There was a time when everyone in search was obsessed with Inktomi.
Inktomi was purchased by Yahoo!, and the company was absorbed. Yahoo! made the announcement on December 23, 2002: Yahoo! Acquires Inktomi Search.
From 2002
The source.
Inktomi isn't a portal - you don't go to Inktomi to search for a website or to submit your site. Inktomi is the back-end for some of the biggest search engines out there, and it provides customized search engines, so you can't just figure out the Inktomi algorithm - there's a different algorithm for each partner.
URL:
http://www.inktomi.com/
FREE ADD URL:
None
THE KEY:
Let them find you, or submit manually through each of the sites they have relationships with.
DIRECTORY:
None
SEARCH RESULTS:
Different for each partner.
RELATIONSHIPS:
Inktomi is everywhere. It provides its search technology to About.com, America Online, HotBot, iWon, LookSmart, MSN, Overture, and many, many more. Inktomi results are often tertiary to sponsored results and directory results.