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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 · Inktomi back in the day was one of the biggest powers on the Internet, it was even the top search engine for some time. It powered MSN search and was eventually acquired by Yahoo for $240 million. But the story you don’t hear very often is how Inktomi died.
May 4, 2012 · Former Lead Inktomi Engineer On Why Google Beat Them. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Inktomi was the search engine that many SEOs focused on when optimizing their sites – they powered...
[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.
