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Yahoo Trialling Inktomi for Australia Search

Trialling Inktomi's search engine in Australia

         

xcandyman

1:00 pm on Aug 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

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[news.zdnet.co.uk...]

Yahoo Australia search producer Peter Crowe has revealed that the company had started testing Inktomi's search engine in parallel with projects at a number of the company's regional portals to see if it provides a viable alternative to Google's crawler-based search engine.

Imaster

6:35 pm on Aug 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Internet portal giant Yahoo! today gave one of its strongest indications yet that it will soon end its reliance on web search technology provider Google.

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zeus

12:06 pm on Aug 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I still cant believe that they are gonna us inktomi results, they just dont deliver the quality for Yahoo. What about Alltheweb or wisenut they deliver better results for sure if it has to be something els then Google.

zeus

2_much

1:53 am on Aug 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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At SES theJeff Weiner, the SVP of Search & MarketPlace at Yahoo, announced that they WILL switch to using Ink results. He said they have a timeline that they are following. He didn't say WHEN the change would take place, but just that it would. I don't think it'll be long before it happens.

I'm revving up my PositionTech accounts and heading over to learn more about Ink. I'm going to be there when the switch occurs :)

mcavic

5:47 pm on Aug 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I still cant believe that they are gonna us inktomi results, they just dont deliver the quality for Yahoo.

Agreed. Yahoo used to use Ink results a while back, and they dropped them for Google. I don't think Ink has changed much since then, except for including a few dynamic pages now...

Brett_Tabke

5:56 pm on Aug 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Old news.
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There have been NO reports of austrailia showing Ink results. I think it is a ruse.

>He didn't say WHEN the change

The Yahoo/Google agreement is up at the end of the year.

The real news here -- once again -- is the slow death of the Yahoo directory as a viable entity.

austtr

6:14 am on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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... and will they continue to take money from the unititiated for inclusion into that directory?

percentages

8:52 am on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Ink results are great;)

But I don't see them at [au.yahoo.com...]

Another false alarm.....glad to see the Canadian's have things in perspective :)