Re: Microsoft's search entry takes on the pack

Nelson Minar (nelson@media.mit.edu)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:18:42 -0400


>So, if a number of search engines are using Inktomi on the backend, the
>question becomes why is one search engine any better than another?

My question is: why are they all producing different databases, when
the data is the same? Inktomi licenses the spider, right, not the database?