Inktomi Search Engine ?

[s2kinteg916]

How do u get into Inktomi ? i read on their site that you have to go through one of their resellers. If someone who links to u is spidered by this engine would u also be spidered ? Also are they bringing in any traffic for u ? Ive read that Inktomi was bought by yahoo and they are switching over to them soon. I get a fair amount of visitors from yahoo wouldnt this benefit me ?

somoene please clarify

[Best.Flash]

I got the site in my sig in about 3 years ago using a one-off payment to Position Tech for one URL/page:

http://www.positiontech.com/inktomi/index.htm

which was worth it at the time as Yahoo were using them for secondary results.

Since Yahoo switched to Google though Inktomi provided little to no traffic aside from a smattering from Overture who also use them for secondary (non-ppc) results.

The sites still ranking well with their Pure Search (http://169.207.238.189/ - down a.t.m) so it'll be interesting to see what traffic they provide if/when Yahoo switch back to them.

[Chris]

I doubt Yahoo will switch to Inktomi fully. Yahoo also owns AltaVista and AllTheWeb (both of which are better than Inktomi)

[s2kinteg916]

Oh ic i guess it be alot better to try to get into altavista and all theweb since they are free

[bugsy]

Originally posted by Chris
I doubt Yahoo will switch to Inktomi fully. Yahoo also owns AltaVista and AllTheWeb (both of which are better than Inktomi)

LOL. It's still a mystery to me why they use Inktomi to begin with!!!