Inktomi Web Search
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Inktomi Search

Inktomi is not a search engine, but a searchable database, which was founded in 1996 "with core search technology based on a research project at UC Berkeley that harnessed the power of parallel computing." Inktomi Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo, and is the leading provider of OEM Web search and paid inclusion services. Inktomi doesn’t use any search engine results but its own, however, they do supply secondary results to AOL, Overture, MSN, and HotBot.

Inktomi Web Search

Today, through top consumer portals and destination sites, Inktomi Web Search provides more than half of all Web users worldwide with the freshest, most relevant search experience. Inktomi's paid inclusion programs ensure that more than 100,000 online retailers and content publishers have their deepest Web content represented and frequently updated in the Inktomi Web Search index.

Inktomi Paid Inclusion

Paid Inclusion. Inktomi is now pay for inclusion only, meaning the way you get into any of the Inktomi-powered search engines is to pay when you submit.

Inktomi and Fast have partnered with Position Technologies in order to have site owners implement guaranteed inclusion in their database. Inktomi, a pioneer in the search engine database field, is the first major crawler service to jump on the "pay for inclusion" bandwagon.

• They claim 95 percent of free submissions are spam and adult-oriented material, which has a negative impact on overall search relevance and user satisfaction.

• Unlike LookSmart and Yahoo, Inktomi guarantees listings to those who pay. They promise the listing within 2 days, and re-spider your website every 48 hours.

Inktomi Website Submission

Inktomi is a search engine database that powers other search engines or partner sites, and you will definitely want to rank well with Inktomi because it powers so many other search engines.

Inktomi is a crawling spider technology and thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed.

Inktomi uses an algorithm whereby the higher a word is on your page, the more weight it is given. So, you want to include your keywords in your title, with being awkward, and you'll want to include them again in your first paragraph as well as later on in the page.

It takes up to 4 weeks to be spidered, and one you are, you'll be spidered on a monthly basis.

The thing to remember with Inktomi .

Use keywords in the title and Meta tags, have high quality content, make your pages (documents) short, use high keyword density (particularly near the top of the page and title), and make sure your site is optimized before submission. As with most search engines, submission alone doesn't guarantee good positioning.

Inktomi and Spam

Inktomi considers spam to be pages created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality search results."

Spam Policy and Guidelines.

reportspam@inktomi.com

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