Inktomi 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. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Jump to: navigation, search An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Jump to: navigation, search The success of the Google search engine was mainly due to its powerful PageRank algorithm and its simple, easy-to-use interface. ...

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 or 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 "bandwidth multiplier" that was essentially a network cache tool. Traffic Server found a limited marketplace due to several factors. Most notable was the requirement that it be configured as a proxy server for web clients in order to be of use -- a difficult selling point to overcome when comparable functionality being directly embedded in Cisco routers in a way that was invisible to the end user and administrators.

Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo! in 2002. Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale Security checkpoint at entrance to headquarters parking lot (most Silicon Valley companies do not have these) Yahoo! started out as Jerrys Guide to the World Wide Web but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. ...

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The Inktomi Search Engine