Advice about Inktomi
How to get your site into Inktomi search results
Inktomi is no more as of February 2004 -- which means it no longer has any kind of public interface. However, it is still actively crawling the web, as a part of Yahoo! search technology. If you go to Overture and sign up for their "site match", or submit yourself at Yahoo, you reach approximately the same public.
Years ago, Paid Site Submission through MarketLeap was a good idea, although if anyone is still paying for that we'd recommend stopping.
Inktomi also used to maintain a huge database used by MSN, About, LookSmart, HotBot, Overture and many other popular search engines. Inktomi had a pay-for-listing service which would get you into the database for a year.
Their search partners were: AOL, MSN, i-Won, HotBot, LookSmart, Overture, About.com, Goo (Japanese), eoexchange.com, powerize.com, Anzwers (Australian) NBCi, Canada.com, Chello (Broadband, Europe), C|Net, Swiss Search, GeoCities, eHOLA (Latin America), i-Atlas, 4-Anything, ICQ, MobilCom AG (German), N2H2, StarMedia, and Radar UOL (Brazil). $39.00 per page is a good deal--in my humble opinion--to get into all these.
LookSmart used to pull results from Inktomi and still does - in a manner of speaking. Only it gets them from Yahoo! now.
If you want some insight into the way Inktomi does things (since it's behind Yahoo search now, here are the old Inktomi spam policies and Inktomi submission guidelines.
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