INKTOMI SELECTS BASIS TECHNOLOGY FOR JAPANESE TEXT HANDLING IN INKTOMI SEARCH/ENTERPRISE 4.0

— Globalization Leader Helps Enable Fully Functional Japanese Enterprise Search Solution for the World's Second Largest Technology Market —

Cambridge, MA, and Foster City, CA, January 31, 2001—Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), the world’s leading provider of globalization products and services, today announced that Inktomi Corp. (NASDAQ: INKT), developer of scalable Internet infrastructure software, chose its technology to provide Japanese text handling functionality in the latest release of Inktomi® Search/Enterprise, an award-winning search solution for corporate intranets and public websites. Inktomi deployed Basis Technology’s Rosette and Japanese Morphological Analyzer (JMA) products to launch a Japanese-language version of Inktomi Search/Enterprise, which is being unveiled at a seminar today in Tokyo.

“Increasingly, our enterprise customers require communication and information retrieval on a global scale,” said Troy Toman, General Manager, Inktomi Search Solutions Division. “Basis Technology’s Rosette enabled us to deploy our enterprise search platform in other languages without maintaining multiple versions. The addition of JMA’s rich Japanese language capabilities provides customers with the high quality search results people have come to expect from Inktomi.”

“Inktomi joins a rapidly growing number of software industry leaders that recognize the immediate opportunity for growth in the Asian market,” said Carl Hoffman, President and CEO of Basis Technology. “Inktomi’s superior search solutions coupled with our globalization tools will bring a new level of search solutions to Japan, the world’s second largest technology market.”

Inktomi Search/Enterprise is designed for public websites, corporate intranets, educational institutions, and government organizations that provide search and content classification of their own content. Inktomi Search/Enterprise is a robust, scalable platform that provides natural language search and topic hierarchy capabilities. It is compatible with the hundreds of file formats found on corporate intranets, extranets, and public sites.

Inktomi Search/Enterprise is leveraging Basis Technology’s Rosette, the C++ library for Unicode-enablement. Rosette provides a single platform for handling multiple languages, which means that Inktomi Search/Enterprise is now poised for fast and effective deployment in many of the world’s languages.

The Japanese language functionality of Inktomi Search/Enterprise was developed using Basis Technology’s Japanese Morphological Analyzer. The ability to search, sort, and retrieve Japanese text is especially difficult due to the lack of spaces between words and the thousands of individual characters that comprise the language. JMA provides the most accurate and effective means of segmenting Japanese text available today, ensuring that Inktomi’s search software returns the most relevant matches to every query.

About Basis Technology

Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from multilingual text. The company’s Rosette® Platform is a suite of high-performance, highly reliable, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Clients include America Online, Convera, Endeca, Google, Hewlett-Packard, InQuira, Inktomi, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Verity and Yahoo!.

Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.

About Inktomi
Based in Foster City, CA, Inktomi develops and markets scalable infrastructure software that is essential to the Internet. Inktomi’s business is divided into Network Products, comprised of industry leading solutions for network caching, content distribution, and media broadcasting; Search Solutions, providing search and content classification products and services to Internet portals, destination sites and enterprises; and wireless technologies. Inktomi’s customer and strategic partner base includes leading companies such as AOL Time Warner, AT&T, Excite@Home, Intel, iWon, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nokia, RealNetworks, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo! The company has offices in North America, Asia, and Europe. For more information visit http://www.inktomi.com/.