Doorways Not Always Bad, At Inktomi (Feb.only available to Search Engine Watch members) For example, someone with a brand new web site might submit their home page through a paid inclusion program in order to ensure that the page gets listed within...
However, it does also present crawler-based results (as provided by Inktomi), especially for more obscure queries. Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. Some of the significant differences between the major crawler-based search...
Buy Inktomi: Hmm. Google's and Inktomi's) Miserable Failure: Looking at the now famous query for miserable failure" and how it brings up the official President George W. Maybe Google's not our friend and we should own our own crawler-based...
The major portion of the search results page is the "Matching Sites" section, where listings from Google's crawler-based index is displayed. Overture & Inktomi Out, Google In At AOL, May 2002 AOL Switches To Inktomi, Feb.
But instead of using its own technology, it opts to license search results from Inktomi. Microsoft finally releases its Inktomi-powered service called MSN Search, after dumping the idea to call it Internet Start.
And Inktomi says its core index of 110 million pages was created after analyzing over 1 billion across the web. In December, Google became the first crawler-based search engine to break the 1.5 billion web page mark.
MSN had dropped Inktomi earlier this year, after a major deal was cut with AltaVista. Should you be wary of Inktomi? Microsoft announces partnership with Inktomi to create search engine. Inktomi announced as Yahoo's new partner for results when a...
The log analysis program is notable for its graphical displays of crawler activity from the major search engines. Axandra analyzed over 100,000 pages that ranked in the top ten at Google, AltaVista, Inktomi (using iWon results), AllTheWeb, Wisenut...
Shortly after the new year, LookSmart listings will no longer be offered through the Sprinks web site or integrated into Inktomi's paid inclusion listings. But these services are unlikely to recover much of the reach lost when the Inktomi deal ends...
Flash back to 2002, and there were some people surprised that AOL dumped Overture and Inktomi in place of Google. As for Yahoo, it already competes head-to-head with Google and has done so since it bought Inktomi last year.
For the record, Inktomi and AllTheWeb also make this one of their top ranked pages, as well. Tips on writing copy that pleases crawler-based search engines and humans. Just saying you are Google does nothing to cause your browser to act the way...
The Yahoo-owned Inktomi search engine no longer operates, though Yahoo-partner Lycos may still say that results are coming from Inktomi. Instead, Lycos uses Yahoo main results (and flags these as being from Inktomi).
You paid someone like Inktomi or LookSmart for the right to use their listings. Overture's activity wasn't good news for Inktomi and LookSmart, which were expecting to be paid for their results. Inktomi complained that upstart Google made a better...
Because paid inclusion evolved as a survival means for companies like Inktomi and LookSmart that "powered" search for others. What made sense for Inktomi and LookSmart to do in the past makes no sense for Yahoo to do now.
Paid inclusion has been used by other search engines such as MSN, AltaVista and Inktomi (the last two now owned by Yahoo) for years. It views any payment linked to its crawler-based results as potentially tainting those results.
As a result, Yahoo had considerable crawler-based armament in the form of Inktomi, AltaVista and AllTheWeb. That's when Yahoo announced it would buy Inktomi, a company that had crawler-based search technology.
The Yahoo-owned Inktomi search engine no longer operates, though Yahoo-partner Lycos may still say that results are coming from Inktomi. Instead, Lycos uses Yahoo main results (and flags these as being from Inktomi).
By the way, at one time back in the days of Inktomi, I recall paid inclusion guaranteed getting your meta description tag used. And, of course, Yahoo is using its own crawler-based results now, rather than depending on Google.
With its acquisitions of Inktomi and Overture, Yahoo inherited six different pay for inclusion programs (from Inktomi, AltaVista and AlltheWeb). The self-serve format of the program works in much the same way as the former Inktomi Site Submit program.
With its acquisitions of Inktomi and Overture, Yahoo inherited six different pay for inclusion programs (from Inktomi, AltaVista and AlltheWeb). There's no way for a searcher to easily distinguish between paid inclusion results and content that...
