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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
- ^ Overture buys FAST Web Search , golem.de, February 25, 2003
- ↑ FAST takes over AltaVista's corporate search business , golem.de, June 18, 2003
- ↑ Yahoo buys Overture , golem.de, July 14, 2003
- ↑ Microsoft wants to buy search specialist Fast Search & Transfer , golem.de, January 8, 2008
- ↑ Microsoft Completes Acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer , Press Release, Microsoft, April 30, 2008
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Dirk Pieper: New BASE version in the BASE Lab . In: InetBib. February 14, 2011. Accessed: August 27, 2013.
literature
- Knut M. Rygh, Fredrik Eeg & Knut A. Espegren: Fast Search And Transfer ASA . In: Business.no. May 14, 2003
- Norbert Lossau : Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries . In: D-Lib Magazine. June 2004, ISSN 1082-9873
- Zara Kanaeva: Distributed content storage , experience with the search engine Fast. In: ZIB report. 04-56, December 2004 http://www.zib.de/Publications/Reports/ZR-04-56.pdf ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Mechtild Stock & Wolfgang G. Stock: Internet search tools in comparison (III), AltaVista, FAST and Northern Light. In: Password. 01/2001 http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/infowiss/admin/public_daten/files/1/1078738894password_1.pdf ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )