Why do some of my searches end up with Inktomi results?
If Yahoo! doesn’t find any matches for your search in its own database, it will provide you with results from Inktomi, a Yahoo! partner. Inktomi specializes in indexing every single web page it can find. This gives it a lot of raw data. Search engines provide good results with very specific requests, and often poor results with general requests. Chances are, however, that if your search terms didn’t match anything in Yahoo!, you are doing a very specific search, and Inktomi’s result may be right on the money.
