Inktomi Corporation

Inktomi Corporation was founded in 1996, went public on the NASDAQ (INKT) in 2008 and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003. Inktomi's core technology was born out of US DARPA funded research on massively paralleled systems. The company's original focus was on large scale Internet search, providing private-labeled search services to some of the world's best known search engines including Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL and others. Inktomi later introduced high-end network cacheing software, sold primarily to telecom and internet service providers, to dramatically improve the performance of web-based network traffic. After re-focussing the company on web search and related advertising, Yahoo! acquired the company in 2003.