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Inktomi Corporation was an American company based in California which provided software for Internet service providers. It was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. The company was initially founded based on the real-world success of the web search engine they developed at the university. After the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo! in March 2003. == History == 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. In a talk given to a UC Berkeley seminar on Search Engines〔(SIMS 141: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business ). Course Syllabus, Fall 2005.〕 in October 2005, Eric Brewer credited much of the AltaVista displacement to technical differences of scale. The company went on to develop Traffic Server, a proxy cache for web traffic and on-demand streaming media. Traffic Server found a limited marketplace due to several factors, but was deployed by several large service providers including AOL. One of the things that Traffic Server did was to transcode images down to a smaller size for AOL dialup users, leading many websites to provide special noncacheable pages with the phrase, "AOL Users Click Here" to navigate to these pages. Inktomi acquired many other companies, including C2B and Impulse Buy Networks, two companies that had more than 4 million merchandise products registered in 1998 as they provided millions of product offers daily across some 20,000 consumer-focused websites including Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL Shopping. Merchants paid Inktomi a percentage of sales and/or a cost per click for traffic sent to their websites, a model that later became known as pay per click and was perfected by Google and Overture Services, Inc. Inktomi stock peaked in March 2000 with a split-adjusted price of $241 a share. With the financial collapse of the service provider industry and overall burst of the dot-com bubble, Inktomi lost most of its customer base. In 2002, the Inktomi board restructured the organization, following a plan led by Keyur Patel to focus back on search and divest from non-core assets. This move led to the acquisition of Inktomi by Yahoo! for $1.63 a share (or $235 million) which completed on March 19, 2003.〔http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/0x0x26292/f8d824d2-8128-4be2-93b1-ce1a739291f3/YHOO_News_2003_3_18_Financial.pdf〕 In a separate transaction, the Ultraseek Server product (renamed Inktomi Enterprise Search) was sold to competitor Verity, Inc. in late 2002. In 2006, the technology behind the Inktomi Proxy Server was acquired by Websense, which has modified it and included it their Websense Security Gateway solution. In 2009, Yahoo! asked to enter Traffic Server into incubation with the Apache Incubator, which was accepted in July. The original Inktomi Traffic Server source, with additional Yahoo! modifications, was donated to the open source community that same year. In April 2010, the Apache Traffic Server〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apache Traffic Server website )〕 top-level project was officially created, marking the official acceptance of the new project. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inktomi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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