Inktomi strikes two European governmental services deals

[heini]

Inktomi Corp. ... signed agreements to deliver InktomiŽ Enterprise Search to NHS Direct, the UK National Health Service's 24-hour nurse-led help-line, and La Poste, France's national postal service.

source:Inktomi PR [inktomi.com]

This is of course an enterprise search solution - not to be confused with Ink websearch and paid indexing.

Funny how European Fast is chosen to power US public service while Ink gets Euro public services.

It's a good reminder anyhow on the growing importance of the corporate and intranet market for all major search engines.

[dvb_99]

This is interesting...so inktomi is getting more partners to get it's results..but the question is do they know that ink works on pay for spidering? ;)

[caine]

With all the balls-ups the NHS has made with various new computer solutions, loacally, regionally and nationally - they are probably not aware that they have to pay per page spidering.

[heini]

InktomiŽ Enterprise Search - not to be confused with Inktomi websearch. Nothing to do with paid indexing etc.
It's a different branch of Ink, just like Fast or Altavista enterprise solutions. Search technology bundled and sold or rented to power internal and external searches in intranets of large organisations.

It's a field in which the established SEs are all trying to get a foot in. It's where the money is.

[engine]

Could this be a show of the strenthening of Inks position in the corporate side as it weakens on the public search?

Could this could lead to an eventual pull-out from the public side?

It's the impression I get.