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"The addition of Inktomi's search platform adds both control and flexibility to this important business, thus enhancing our ability to create new and more innovative search offerings for consumers and businesses."

"Since 1996, Inktomi's foundation has been the Web search business and we have grown it significantly with our core customers and new paid inclusion partners while focusing on extending and innovating our technology," said David Peterschmidt, Inktomi chairman and CEO. "Today's announcement matches our premier Web search technology and team with Yahoo!'s global reach and commitment to providing the best user experience on the Web, bringing us closer to achieving our mutual goal of making the Inktomi-Yahoo! search offering the standard bearer for searching on the Web."

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval and the approval of Inktomi's stockholders.

The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2003. Yahoo! expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings per share within 12 months of closing.

Inktomi, recently focused its assets exclusively on the growing Web Search space.

The company also has made significant improvements in its overall Web search capability, including increased relevance, a fresher and larger index, paid inclusion, the utilization of an XML interface and features targeted at understanding user intent for interactions on the Web.

Yahoo! is committed to being a leader in search and Yahoo! Search has seen continued growth in number of users, user retention, number of searches and click-through rates since its recent search improvements this past October, making Yahoo! Search results more comprehensive and relevant than ever before.

Yahoo! has introduced a series of enhancements to its search business in recent months, including:

• Improved relevancy and comprehensiveness of search results by combining Yahoo! Directory and third-party algorithmic search results



• Enhanced and improved quality of Yahoo!'s most-searched terms, with continued expansion of the number of these enhanced queries



• New version of Yahoo! Companion, an integrated search toolbar that enables consumers to access their personalized browser settings anywhere that they can access the Internet



• Increased marketing resources invested to continue building Yahoo! Search brand



• Improved directory matches to offer consumers results within relevant categories



• Customized features leveraging Yahoo!'s vertical assets, such as weather, news and stock information directly embedded within search results pages