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Inktomi Corporation was an American Internet service provider (ISP) software developer based in Foster City, California. Customers included Microsoft, HotBot, Amazon.com, eBay, and Walmart.
May 10, 2012 · Diego Basch, a former Inktomi engineer, reveals how Google outperformed Inktomi in relevancy, user experience and speed. He also shares how Inktomi failed to adapt to Google's innovations and lost its market share.
May 4, 2012 · Diego Basch, a former Senior Software Engineer at Inktomi, shares his insights on how Google dominated the search market and Inktomi failed. He cites the lack of control over the front-end, snippets and caching as some of the key factors.
[Recorded June 22, 2004]The Inktomi story is about a technology company on one of the wildest rides in the wildest era in the history of technology. After fa...
Inktomi Corp. was founded in 1996 by Eric A. Brewer and Paul Gauthier. Just six years later, with annual sales reaching $223.5 million, Inktomi had secured a leading position among search engine technology providers.
The Inktomi story is about a technology company on one of the wildest rides in the wildest era in the history of technology. After fast growth to the rare state of profitability, Inktomi joined the Nasdaq 100 as a representative of the Internet.
In 1997 the company moved to San Mateo, and then later established its corporate headquarters in Foster City. When Inktomi and HotWired introduced HotBot in 1996, a new search engine for the World Wide Web, it was the only search engine that could search all 50 million pages on the Web.
