Inktomi
- Iktomi is a spider-trickster god in Lakota mythology.
Inktomi Corporation was a Californian company that provided software for Internet Service Providers, which was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. The company was initially founded based on the real-world success of the search engine they developed at the university.
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 displaced by Google. In a talk given to a 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).
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, Inc.). With this combination of technologies, Inktomi became an "arms merchant" to a growing number of Content Delivery Network (CDN) service providers.
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.
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.
Executives
Prior to the acquisition of Inktomi By Yahoo!, in 2002, the Corporate Officers of Inktomi were as follows:
David C. Peterschmidt - Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Eric A. Brewer - Chief Scientist
Timothy J. Burch - Vice President of Human Resources
Ted Hally - Senior Vice President and General Manager of Network Products
Jerry M. Kennelly - Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Al Shipp - Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations
Timothy Stevens - Senior Vice President of Business Affairs, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
Steve Hill - Vice President of Europe
Board of Directors ( prior to 2002 Acquisition by Yahoo )
David C. Peterschmidt - Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer , Inktomi Corporation
Dr. Eric A. Brewer - Chief Scientist, Inktomi Corporation
Frank Gill Retired - Executive Vice President, Intel Corporation
Fredric W. Harman - General Partner, Oak Investment Partners
Alan F. Shugart - Chief Executive Officer, Al Shugart International
Mission Statement
"The Inktomi mission is to build scalable software applications that are core to the Internet infrastructure."
Quoted from Inktomi website circa January 2002
Headquarters (pre-acquisisiton)
These were the locations of the U.S. and European Headquarters prior to the acquisition by Yahoo!
U.S. Headquarters
4100 East 3rd Avenue
Foster City, CA 94404
650-653-2800 Phone
650-653-2801 Fax
email: info@inktomi.com
http://www.inktomi.com
European Headquarters
Inktomi Corporation
Aldwych House
81 Aldwych
London�WC2B 4HN
United Kingdom
tel 44.0.207.430.5700
fax 44.0.207.430.5757
e-mail: europe@inktomi.com
See Also
Search Engine Charts
- Bruce Clay, INC's Search Engine Relationship Chart ®
- ihelpyou, INC's Search Engine Partnership Chart
External links
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