This has come up several times in other threads in the last week, so I guess the mods will move this.....

Inktomi is a crawler based search engine like Google - if you have good links you will be in it and ranked.

Inktomi is not a pay for inclusion search engine. You do not have to pay to be in it. All the payment does is guarentee that you will be crawled every 48 hours. This would have no impact on your ranking unless you have a lot of fresh content added every few days.

CBP