Searching for pot of gold

Portals sites--those all-in-one services seeking to become home pages to the world--are intensifying their efforts to chase customers and businesses, while looking to benefit from Wall Street's riches. And they all continue to cut deals at a feverish pace.

Inktomi doubles IPO price update The company, which makes search-engine technology for portals and other sites, doubles its IPO price to close at 36. Yahoo's e-commerce strategy Q&A Yahoo's e-commerce chief speaks with NEWS.COM on the Viaweb buy and keeping a 60-day jump on its rivals. NBC buys stake in CNET, Snap update The broadcast giant invests in the Internet firm and and will run the portal service. Lycos gets search patent The search firm receives a patent on its "spider" technology for the Web. Inktomi, GeoCities near IPOs The Internet companies are nearing their forays into an IPO market that remains hot.