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'''Inktomi Corporation''' was a [[California]]n company that provided [[software]] for [[Internet Service Provider]]s, which was founded in [[1996]] by [[UC Berkeley]] professor [[Eric Brewer (Inktomi)|Eric Brewer]] and graduate student [[Paul Gauthier (Inktomi)|Paul Gauthier]]. The company was initially founded based on the real-world success of the [[search engine]] they developed at the university. |
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Their software was incorporated in the widely-used [[HotBot]] search engine, which displaced [[AltaVista]] as the leading [[web-crawler]]-based search engine, and which was in turn was displaced by [[Google]]. In a talk given to a [http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is141/f05/ UC Berkeley seminar on Search Engines] in October 2005, Eric Brewer credited much of the AltaVista displacement to technical differences of scale (Inktomi used distributed network technology, while AltaVista ran everything on a single machine). |
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The company went on to develop [[Traffic Server]], a proxy cache for web traffic and on-demand streaming media. Traffic Server found a limited marketplace due to several factors, but was deployed by several large service providers including [[AOL]]. In November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Infoseek from Disney's go.com; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks. Webspective developed technology for synchronizing and managing content across a host of distributed servers to be used in clustered or distributed load-balancing. Fast Forward developed software for the distribution of live streaming media over the Internet using "app-level" multicast technology. eScene Networks developed software that provided an integrated workflow for the management and publishing of video content (now owned by [[Media Publisher|Media Publisher, Inc.]]). With this combination of technologies, Inktomi became an "arms merchant" to a growing number of [[Content Delivery Network]] (CDN) service providers. |
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In earlier acquisitions Inktomi acquired C2B and Impulse Buy Networks, both companies which had pioneered the comparison shopping space and that had pioneered the performance based marketing market. With over 4 million products in registered in the service in 98, and serving millions of merchandise product offers daily across 20,000 websites including Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL shopping. Merchants paid a percentage of sales and or a cost per click for traffic sent to their websites, ultimately this model became known as Pay Per Click and was perfected by Google and Overture. |
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With the financial collapse of the service provider industry and overall burst of the Internet "bubble", Inktomi lost most of its customer base and ultimately was acquired by [[Yahoo!]] in 2002. In a separate transaction, the Infoseek product (renamed Inktomi Enterprise Search) was sold to competitor [[Verity Inc]] in late 2002. |
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==Executives== |
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Steve Hill was the VP of europe for inktomi before its sale to Yahoo! |
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Dave Peterschmidt was Inktomi's CEO from 1996 until its sale to Yahoo! |
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==See Also== |
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* [[Yahoo! Search]] |
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==Search Engine Charts== |
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*[http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm Bruce Clay, INC's Search Engine Relationship Chart ®] |
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*[http://www.ihelpyou.com/search-engine-chart.html ihelpyou, INC's Search Engine Partnership Chart] |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo!] |
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[[Category:Internet search engines]] |
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[[Category:Yahoo!]] |
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