You ask me about Inktomi.

I have a small business obtaining 80% of its business form the web.

My main site has been ranked in the top 10 on the main search engines for more than one year, with a number of my main keywords, by simply becoming knowledgable and skilled in how to prepare my pages and how to correctly submit.

I have however registered with Inktomi and paid them some times ago, to see if it was worth it.

Since, I have not seen any improvment in my ranking - which was already quite good. In the reports they send me, it looks like no body or alsmost no one clicks through them. My $60 odd quids are going to last for a while!

I am extremely busy and have no time to become a 'Inktomi graduate' to be able to get top results with them. And this is my main critics:I do not ind their system user friendly.

I have had excellent results with Google pay per click which is very user friendly and leaves you in control of what you do and spend... Until I tried their network advertisement. Then I found my bill rocketting along with the number of clicks... but without any improvement in income for me. The bill went 5X... but no result as far as clients were concerned. To the point where I wondered if these 'clicks' were not an uncorrect count from their sytem. It has been a pure waste of money.

So I have stopped using them - I think they should analyze this deeper and warm their customers about the danger of advertising on their network.

Cheer,
Dom