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Fast Search and Transfer ( recursive acronym : FAST ) is a subsidiary of Microsoft . The Norwegian company specializes in enterprise search .

FAST was a 1997 spin-off from the Technical and Scientific University of Norway (NTNU) Trondheim . The company sold its web search unit with its flagship project, the Alltheweb search engine , to Overture in February 2003 for $ 100 million . In June 2003, bought FAST in return the area of enterprise search AltaVista ( AltaVista Enterprise Search Business ) from Overture. Overture (including AltaVista) was then taken over by Yahoo in July 2003 for 1.6 billion US dollars . In 2008 Microsoft took over FAST for 840 million euros. There is still a research and development center in Oslo.

FAST presented u. a. temporarily the search engine technology for the science search engines BASE and Scirus ready. Customers include u. a. AT&T , Reuters , Dell , BASF , Bayer AG and The Walt Disney Company .

The web crawler FAST is FAST WebCrawler.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Overture buys FAST Web Search , golem.de, February 25, 2003
  2. FAST takes over AltaVista's corporate search business , golem.de, June 18, 2003
  3. Yahoo buys Overture , golem.de, July 14, 2003
  4. Microsoft wants to buy search specialist Fast Search & Transfer , golem.de, January 8, 2008
  5. Microsoft Completes Acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer , Press Release, Microsoft, April 30, 2008
  6. Bielefeld University Library and industry leader FAST start strategic partnership to test and promote the new generation of enterprise search technologies for digital libraries . Bielefeld University, Information and Press Office: Press Release No. 168/2003. Accessed: August 27, 2013.
  7. Dirk Pieper: New BASE version in the BASE Lab . In: InetBib. February 14, 2011. Accessed: August 27, 2013.

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