The partners may also merge the Inktomi results with hits from other, non-Inktomi databases. See below for a comparison. After a long hiatus, HotBot is finally back in the game. It is using the larger Gigadoc database and its search features seem to be working better and more consistently than they have in the past. MSN Search MSN Advanced Search has one of the largest versions of the Inktomi database, has many advanced search features, and has some search features that none of the others yet have.
Users can choose to limit to one record per domain or turn site clustering off.
And Microsoft Internet Explorer users can select and save search results. However, it still has problems. As of Aug. 2001, truncation is not working right at MSN but is at HotBot. In January 2000, they released information on their WebMap database of over one billion documents. The WebMap database is not available for searching, nor do any Inktomi partners offer direct searching of those one billion records.