Inktomi's crash and burn

keeping up with the last hours step by step

[stcrim]

It would be very easy for this valuable information to get scattered all over the INK forum.

To keep it together, as you see a search engine pulling out, please post it here. Also, please repost any you have seen already, here. (This thread)

It will keep their final days in order and create a time line.

Thanks for your help on this one.

Gosh, I'm gonna be out of a moderator job if this keeps going...

Steve

[tigger]

I don't think it's that bad yet, at least I hope not, as I'm in the same boat as engine and get a lot of traffic from inktomi results in the uk mainly from MSN

[georged]

They're giving me some good AOL too.

[minnapple]

Is AOL still using Ink?

[tigger]

AOL.co.uk is still hanging in

[markd]

Wonder who might take over supplying each the current Ink SE's with results if the worse happens?

Hopefully it won't be a 'GoTo' clean-up.

I echo tigger - I'm getting good results from many Ink partners (.co.uk and .com) using 'pay to play' almost exclusively.

[ihelpyou]

I've got a sneaking suspicion that Google will be there to clean up the messes.

[Napoleon]

It would be better if it was FAST... in the interest of having eggs in multiple backets. Better still, but unlikely, NL or similar level three.

[markd]

I agree with Napoleon.

I know that Google is everybodies favourite at the moment, but I work for many small and medium sized companies whose web sites supply extremely valuable content to niche markets but don't have a chance of achieving inbound links from 'popular high traffic' sites which presumably boosts 'link popularity'.

I am sure that due to my inexperience I am missing a trick with Google, but I find it impossible to get in to, and once in you can disappear in a matter of days.

I have found Ink and Fast relatively stable.

[NFFC]

"Pay attention long enough, and you'll see all sorts of strange things in Silicon Valley, like companies becoming more and more innovative with accounting rules....Sometimes when a window is opened and we see that a company is behaving in an unorthodox fashion, it naturally raises questions. Seeing something peculiar is often a sign that you want to take a closer look."

Delving Into the Fuzzy Math at Inktomi [thestreet.com]

[stcrim]

markd,

If you have many web sites you have the perfect opportunity to get your links for Google. Google looks at the linking from directory to directory on a site (inner link everything) - and the incoming links - you can have hidden pages on your other sites (with hidden links to those pages, so Google can find them) Then create pages that you would consider publicly attractive (though the public will never see them) Make sure all your links on those pages are text using the KW and KP you are targeting...

-s-
If you read his post, this is on topic

[Brett_Tabke]

>I've got a sneaking suspicion that Google
>will be there to clean up the messes.

They want too much for their services. Notice how few Google affiliates/search sites there are? Not even the meta engines will pay them.

[ihelpyou]

Yes. Maybe a Google-ite will read your post and lower their service price a little. :)

[NFFC]

Is it me or does this page have a background sound of a clock ticking?

Latest Inktomi SEC filing [sec.gov]

"The decrease from the prior quarter is the result of a modest decrease in our Web search business..."

"In April 2000, we entered into a lease commencing November 1, 2001 for approximately 400,000 square feet of office space in two mid-rise office buildings in Foster City, California. Aggregate payments to be made under the lease are approximately [big]$324.4 million[/big] over the lease term ending October 31, 2016."