The search engine says it still has plenty of customers to remain afloat.
Published:
30 June 2000 y., Friday
News that Yahoo (YHOO) is switching the search engine featured on its portal from Inktomi (INKT) to Google might be a marketing coup for Google, but it won't sink Inktomi, which has plenty of other customers and business not related to search.
Search represents about 35 percent of Inktomi's overall revenue, while networking services such as caching represent 60 percent, and commerce represents about 5 percent, according to Richard Pierce, CEO of Inktomi.
Without Yahoo, the company has 125 remaining search customers, including five out of the top 10 portal sites: Microsoft (MSFT) Network, America Online, Lycos (LCOS), iWon and GoTo. Yahoo revenues made up about 2 percent of Inktomi's total search income.
In the meantime, Yahoo is retaining Inktomi's service as the search engine it offers to corporate customers seeking to create their own customized portals. The reasoning behind Yahoo's decision to boot Inktomi is unclear, although some analysts speculate that privately held Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., may have been able to offer the portal company a better deal than Inktomi, a public company. Yahoo executives have said they chose Google for the company's main portal search engine because it shares Yahoo's "strong consumer focus."
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
An aviation agreement has been signed today by the European Union and the Vietnamese authorities which will remove nationality restrictions in the bilateral air services agreements between EU Member States and Vietnam.
more »
The European Investment Bank marked the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus and its 30 years of activity in the country with a public ceremony celebrating the signature of a total of EUR 180 million for urban environment.
more »
In response to the financial crisis, the Commission has put forward legislative proposals to strengthen and expand existing tools for coordinating economic and fiscal policy in the EU.
more »
In the first meeting of the SME Finance Forum, possible means to improve the current situation of access to finance were discussed, such as the introduction of a grace period for firms in difficulties, the involvement of credit mediators and improved loan guarantees.
more »
The EU budget is no simple matter, but then no budget ever is.
more »
Parliament will be crucial in avoiding a “lowest common denominator” approach when helping to design the EU's new economic governance architecture, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet told the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee on Monday.
more »
With a multitude of language-related events taking place on or around 26 September, the main themes for this year's European Day of Languages are business and jobs.
more »
The EU disbursed today € 1.15 billion to Romania, the third instalment of a € 5 billion loan, which was agreed in May 2009 as part of a multilateral financial assistance package.
more »
The European Investment Bank has agreed to lend GBP250 million for the replacement, reinforcement and expansion of the gas distribution networks operated by Scotland Gas Networks and Southern Gas Networks.
more »
The bargaining positions of all players in the human food chain must be rebalanced, and fair competition enforced by law, to ensure fair returns to farmers and price transparency to consumers, says Parliament in a resolution voted on Tuesday.
more »