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To: DownSouth who wrote (460)	11/24/1998 7:53:00 AM
From: kas1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

>INKT's cache is considered much more complex and is not >really the appliance approach. Heavy hardware requirements. >(That is about all I know about their product. I will do some >digging.) i know that yahoo runs inktomi as their back-end query engine. they switched from altavista to inktomi sometime this past summer. they have a room full of sun workstations, each one holding just a little bit of the web index. when a user puts in a search, a "controller" machine runs the search on every "slave" machine, and then compiles the results. my impression is that the exact hardware requirements vary based on how much you want to do and how fast. scaleability, you know. but yes DEFINITELY it's not the appliance approach -- you need to buy a roomful of sparcstations!