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by Scoundreller 2005 days ago
I always laughed when I saw « Powered by Inktomi », like, why does this company I’ve never heard of want to be associated with this ?
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Inktomi was pretty good then. In fact they powered both Yahoo and Microsoft web search at the time. When they were acquired by Yahoo, they formed the basis of Yahoo search, that was well respected in the search research community for years until Yahoo started to implode.