Inktomi Index Connect

Inktomi has expanded its pay for inclusion program. For larger customers (those with over 1,000 pages), Inktomi offers its Index Connect service. For those sites that choose to pay, they can determine what gets indexed, how frequently it gets index, track when it was indexed, and even send a file with metadata for pages or multimedia files via XML interchange format. For searchers, this means that Inktomi partners are likely to have some unique multimedia content unavailable from other sources. It may also mean that non-paying sites will be less well covered and less frequently updated. See their press release for more information.