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New web search engine: Inktomi releases its HotBot search engine. [14] October: New web search engine: Gary Culliss and Steven Yang begin work at MIT on the popularity engine, a version of the Direct Hit Technologies search engine that ranks results across users according to the selections made during previous searches. 1997 April
LookSmart is an American search advertising, content management, [2] online media, and technology company. It provides search, machine learning and chatbot technologies [3] as well as pay-per-click and contextual advertising services. LookSmart also licenses and manages search ad networks as white-label products.
In March 1999, CEO David Peterschmidt said that Inktomi would become an "arms merchant" to a growing number of content delivery network service providers. [10] Inktomi received revenue based on a percentage of sales and/or a pay per click model. In April 1999, the company acquired Impulse Buy Network, adding 400 merchants to its shopping engine ...
A search engine maintains the following processes in near real time: [34] Web crawling; Indexing; Searching [35] Web search engines get their information by web crawling from site to site. The "spider" checks for the standard filename robots.txt, addressed to it. The robots.txt file contains directives for search spiders, telling it which pages ...
Link farms were first developed by search engine optimizers (SEOs) in 1999 to take advantage of the Inktomi search engine's dependence upon link popularity. Although link popularity is used by some search engines to help establish a ranking order for search results, the Inktomi engine at the time maintained two indexes.
BitTorrent sites may operate a BitTorrent tracker and are often referred to as such. Operating a tracker should not be confused with hosting content. A directory allows users to browse the content available on a website based on various categories.
The ill-fated ship in the 2016 PC game Tharsis is named Iktómi. He has appeared multiple times in the Megami Tensei video game series and its spinoffs as a demon under the name Ictinike. He was first introduced in the 1995 game Devil Summoner , and has since appeared in Devil Children: Book of Fire and Book of Ice , Devil Survivor 2 , Shin ...
Infoseek's Ultraseek Server software technology, an enterprise search engine product, was sold in 2000 to Inktomi. [1] Under Inktomi, Ultraseek Server was renamed "Inktomi Enterprise Search". In December 2002 (prior to the Yahoo! acquisition of Inktomi), the Ultraseek product suite was sold to a competitor Verity Inc, who re-established the ...