Inktomi
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| Fate | Acquired by Yahoo! |
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| Founded | February 13, 1996 |
| Founder |
Eric Brewer Paul Gauthier |
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Key people
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David C. Peterschmidt (CEO) Keyur Patel (Senior vice president, strategy, marketing and technology) |
Inktomi Corporation was a California-based company that provided software for Internet service providers. Inktomi's software was incorporated in the widely used HotBot search engine, which displaced AltaVista as the leading web-crawler-based search engine, itself to be displaced later by Google.
The company developed Traffic Server, a proxy server web cache for world wide web traffic and on-demand streaming media. Traffic Server was deployed by several large service providers including AOL. It transcoded images down to a smaller size for users of AOL dial-up internet access, leading many websites to provide special non-cacheable pages with the phrase, "AOL Users Click Here" to navigate to these pages.
After the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo! in early 2003 for $241 million.
The company's name, pronounced 'INK-tuh-me', was derived from a legend of the Lakota people about a trickster spider character, Iktomi which was known for his ability to defeat larger adversaries through wit and cunning. The tri-color, nested cube logo was created by Tom Lamar in 1996.
Inktomi was founded in January 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. The company was initially founded based the web search engine that Eric Brewer and Paul Gauthier developed at the university.
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