New Inktomi Products
This press release was issued February 10th. I don't believe it was posted here.
Steve
Company Contact:
Kevin Brown
Inktomi Corporation
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Access Communications
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Inktomi Announces Suite of New Search
Engine Services
Dedicated Search Clusters and Custom Data Blending Extend
Search Platform
SAN MATEO, Calif., February 10, 1999 -- Inktomi Corp. (NASDAQ:
INKT), developer of scalable Internet infrastructure software, today
announced a suite of new customizable services for its
industry-leading search engine offering. Using new premium services
running on the Inktomi Search Engine platform including "Dedicated
Search Clusters" and "Custom Data Blending," portals and
destination sites can offer highly differentiated new capabilities
incorporating their own custom data and communities. In addition,
Inktomi has signed a service distribution agreement with WorldBlaze
to deliver real-time language translation services on top of the Inktomi
search platform, adding to last month's distribution agreement with
Centraal for its RealNames system.
The Inktomi Search Engine, which has received broad acclaim for
delivering comprehensive and highly accurate Internet search results,
has also added new features to strengthen its core search
technology. Search customers will gain access to new "Universal
Search" capabilities, which provide portal customers with the
flexibility to incorporate multiple public and private data sources into
searches. Universal Search intelligently blends Web data, custom
data, and a collection of new search data sources covering news,
company, and product information into a single page of search
results.
"Our customers are looking for more than high-powered Web
searching," said Paul Gauthier, chief technology officer of Inktomi.
"Inktomi's flexible infrastructure services help these companies draw
upon their unique differentiating assets to innovate and develop new
revenue-generating services."
Using these new infrastructure elements, portals and destination
sites can incorporate millions of pages of their own unique content to
enhance existing general-purpose Web searching and create a new
generation of specialized, targeted, and vertical search engines. The
new search services include the following features:
Dedicated Search Clusters. Inktomi now has the capability
to build dedicated search clusters, allowing custom searching
of any data. For example, portals can integrate millions of
pages of their own content or specified third-party content into
the search experience, and the data can be refreshed daily or
hourly. Customers that use this functionality include
GeoCities, which offers search access to over 20 million of its
'Homesteader' Web pages, ICQ, a subsidiary of America
Online, Inc., which is providing search access to content
created by its 28 million registrants, and Aeneid Corporation,
which has created highly-focused vertical business catalogs
as part of its information aggregation platform.
Custom Data Blending. The new search service offers the
capability to integrate customer data sets into Inktomi's
whole-Web search offering, enabling a wide variety of custom
searches. Customers for this functionality include N2H2,
which has integrated its adult content filters to create the
Searchopolis family-safe search service, and iAtlas
Corporation, which recently announced an agreement with
Inktomi to provide search sites with web-page filtering
technology that allows users to focus their searches by
industry type, company size, site popularity, or geographic
location.
New Search Data Sources. Inktomi search customers will
also gain integrated access to an expanded set of search
databases using Universal Search. These new data sources
can be offered as standalone search applications or
transparently integrated within standard Web search results to
dramatically increase the convenience and relevance of
queries. New data sources include news data from 50 of the
world's top news authorities, stock data incorporating ticker
symbol lookup and stock quotes from the world's ten largest
financial markets, product data from the upcoming Inktomi
Shopping Engine, and Centraal RealNames.
Availability
Dedicated Search Clusters and Custom Data Blending are available
immediately. Universal Search and new search data sources are
scheduled for availability in late February. New services incorporating
Centraal and WorldBlaze functionality are scheduled for availability
during the first half of the year.
About Inktomi
Based in San Mateo, Calif., Inktomi (pronounced INK tuh me),
develops and markets scalable software designed for the world's
largest Internet infrastructure and media companies. Inktomi's
products include the world's largest search engines, online
comparison shopping solutions, and carrier-class network cache
software. Inktomi works with leading companies including America
Online, @Home Network, CNET, GeoCities, Intel, RealNetworks,
Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo!. The company has offices in North
America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit
www.inktomi.com.
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Inktomi, Traffic Server, Scaling the Internet and the tri-colored cube
logo are all trademarks of Inktomi Corporation. All other company and
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