Here is a 100 mins video, about the rise and fall of Inktomi, given by its co-founder about the company and the internet bubble: Inktomi's wild ride: A personal view of the internet bubble http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4168901697847625272&q=enron IPO June 10, 1998 Opens at $18, closes at $36. Later the peak was at $241 They made one of the first searchengines, Hotbot. An interesting note how Microsoft didn't recognize the importance of searchengines in those early years...