Inktomi

No Longer Exists

When this page was written more than 20 years ago (which is why it is in the archives section of our site), it gave detailed directions on how to get into the Inktomi search engine. Inktomi provided search results to a bunch of other search engines and portals (called Inktomi Partners).

It hasn't been possible to get into Inktomi search results for a long time now, because the company (and search engine) went out of business in about 2003. See the Wikipedia entry on Inktomi. They were a casualty of the collapse of the original Internet Bubble and went from a stock high of about $245 per share until their last sale (Yahoo bought them), at under $2 per share.

Google and Bing are the only two English language search engines left worth worrying about in 2024. In our experience, if you focus on optimizing your website for Google, good results at Bing will fall into line.