Thursday April 8 8:03 PM ET
Inktomi Adds 350 Merchants To Shopping Service
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Inktomi Corp. (Nasdaq:INKT - news), the Internet company that provides Web searching for Yahoo! Inc. and other sites, said Thursday it added 350 merchants to its online shopping service.
Among the merchants it signed up were barnesandnoble.com,, Beyond.com, PC Flowers & Gifts, Reel.com and Sports Superstore Online. Inktomi said the merchants it signed sell more than 2 million products across 14 categories of products and services.
San Mateo, Calif.-based Inktomi was one of the first to integrate comparison price data and other consumer information with a search engine service.
It said it now offered its service through 20 other portals, adding FreeServers, FreeYellow.Com, Global DataTel, NetGift Registry and Time Inc. New Media. to a group that already included Infoseek, CNET and others.
The Inktomi service recommends brands and lists prices compiled by Consumer Digest. It also automates the shopping process, with Universal Order Processing so that shoppers only have to enter their data once and use it for all future transactions with participating merchants. |
