On June 26, 2000 Yahoo Selected Google to provide its organic search results (replacing Inktomi) with its impressive index of more than 25 million pages; again, huge for the time. Search engines – webmasters and search engine optimization (SEO...
Inktomi back in the day was one of the biggest powers on the Internet, it was even the top search engine for some time. The Google experience was far superior to Inktomi’s. But the story you don't hear very often is how Inktomi died.
Inktomi was powering the search results at MSN. It's hard to believe but today is Wikipedia's 10th birthday. The "multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project" was created on January 15, 2001.
Before Yahoo had their own crawler, their backfill results were powered by Inktomi, AltaVista and finally Google (in that order). Search Products announced today that Bing now officially powers Yahoo's organic search results in USA and Canada...
Names like WebCrawler, Excite, Infoseek, and Inktomi -- all general search engines -- spring to mind. So, I slipped out a few years back to hang over at ClickZ for awhile (which was fun), but now I'm back at my old stomping ground here at Search...
Nevertheless, Inktomi and then Yahoo! At SMX East this week, Cris Pierry, the Senior Director of Yahoo! Search, surprised everyone by saying that Yahoo! had stopped supporting the Meta Keywords Tag several months ago.
Borkovsky eventually rejoined Yandex in 2008 after a spell with Inktomi and Yahoo in the U.S.where he is still based. ComScore released figures in August showing a significant rise in worldwide search activity -- a story that resulted in many...
Your business was figuring out strategies for Lycos, Looksmart, Ask, YellowPages.com, Baidu, Excite, Inktomi, Dogpile, Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. Remember when the search world was less defined than it is now?
Yahoo had just purchased Overture Services and the popular algorithmic search site, Inktomi. Strike that. Everything I save has some kind of meaning, I just forget what that meaning is, and someone eventually makes me throw it away.
Zvents built its platform using their own technology (Gordon Rios, the CTO, worked at Inktomi). According to Paul O'Brien, VP of Marketing for Zvents, his local search engine is helping businesses draw foot traffic to their stores, restaurants and...
While I agree that an Orkut or a MySpace may not survive in the long run (think Prodigy, Lycos, Inktomi, etc.there's no question that social networks are here to stay. What is the potential of Socialommerce™?
This was in spite of the fact that until the Overture / Inktomi / Altavista /AllTheWeb acquisition, they outsourced their search results. The $44 billion deal would reshape the search engine marketing arena, teaming the number two and three players...
In retrospect, maybe Yahoo's decision to purchase Inktomi wasn't the brightest move in the world, but we digress. Seasons change, time passes, but search carries on, even in the darkest of times. Monday saw European markets taking a 7 percent dip...
Makhijani joined Yahoo with Inktomi, where he was VP and GM of Inktomi Web search. Yahoo's VP of consumer Web search Andrew Braccia has left Yahoo for the greener pastures of venture capital, joining Accel Partners this week as a principal...
They were late to the search game, depending on Overture and Inktomi for too long. Microsoft has clearly stumbled in implementing its search and online advertising strategies. They seem to have underestimated Google, and have been playing catch-up...
Doorways Not Always Bad, At Inktomi (Feb.only available to Search Engine Watch members) Yes. Should searchers fear this? Not necessarily. Paid listings generate revenue for search engines, which in turn helps them provide unpaid editorial listings...
However, it does also present crawler-based results (as provided by Inktomi), especially for more obscure queries. These two types of search engines gather their listings in radically different ways. Download SEW's free whitepapers on search engine...
Former About.com Boss Heads to IACFormer About.com and AllBusiness.com CEO Peter Horan has been named CEO of IAC Media the difficulties in integrating Yahoo's directory, Inktomi's search engine, and Overture search ad system; and the delays of...
The story chronicles Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's refusal to buy Google for $5 billion in 2002 (about the value of Yahoo itself at the time); the difficulties in integrating Yahoo's directory, Inktomi's search engine, and Overture search ad system; and...
Google's and Inktomi's) Miserable Failure, January 2004 Bush biography tops. Link bombing, as I've covered here, caused it to happen. But yesterday, folks at Threadwatch spotted that it has changed.
