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	Business.no- Fast Search and Transfer ASA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		FAST Search and Transfer is competing in this industry; this case is written to highlight the challenges and opportunities for FAST Search and Transfer in this rather new and interesting industry.
		FAST search and Transfer is the second largest IT-company at Oslo Stock Exchange with a market value of approximately 1.9 bill NOK or USD 265 million (by April 2003).
		FAST also increased their market share in 2002, to be around 20% of the industry’s total revenues, up from about 12% in 2001 and 2,5 % in 2000.
	www.business.no /artikkel_fast_search.htm (7836 words)

	Overture to buy search services \| CNET News.com
		The acquisition, combined with the recent purchase of search engine AltaVista, is designed to help Overture "create the most powerful and comprehensive search capability on the Internet," the company said in a release.
		AltaVista's and Fast's paid inclusion businesses and engineering teams will begin integrating immediately after the acquisitions close, and a common paid-inclusion product and technology team should be set up by the end of 2003.
		Excluding the payments Overture would have made to AltaVista and Fast as independent companies, the companies are expected to add sales of about $25 million to $30 million in the last three quarters of 2003 and about $100 million to $125 million in 2004, Overture said.
	news.com.com /2100-1023_3-985850.html (752 words)

	AlltheWeb Review on Search Engine Showdown
		Full Boolean searching is available from the Advanced Search page but only if the "boolean expression" option is chosen from the top drop-down box that defaults to "all of the words." For operators, AlltheWeb uses 'and,' 'or,' and 'andnot.' Note that the NOT operator is the relatively unusual 'andnot' with no space.
		The Advanced Search offers several lines for adding additional terms or phrases connected to the search as "Should Include," "Must Include," or "Must Not Include" but note that multiple words entered in those boxes will be automatically treated as phrases with no way to turn that part off.
		The Advanced Search also has Domain Filters which can be used to limit to pages at a specific domains as well as to exclude pages from specific domains.
	www.searchengineshowdown.com /features/alltheweb (1458 words)

	The future of the Fast search engine
		Fast's success is mainly caused by the fact that it feeds search results to a lot of large Internet portals around the globe, including various variants of Lycos and big European portals like the German T-Online.
		Fast is the final proof that this country is even able to develop a pure information and technology based company capable of entering the American market.
		Search engine optimizers are constantly trying to bend the rules in order to get their listings higher in the search results, often using techniques considered spam by the search engines.
	www.pandia.com /sw-2001/63-fast.html (1046 words)

	Summus Partners With Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) to Develop Enhanced Wireless Search Applications
		FAST technology connects people and information in meaningful, actionable ways, and FAST's real-time search and information retrieval solutions are behind the scenes of some of the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems such as AT&T, IBM, Lycos, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, Tiscali, T-Online and many more.
		Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at some of the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems.
		FAST has operations in the United States, Europe (Norway, Germany, UK) and Japan, and is publicly traded under the ticker symbol 'FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
	www.wirelessdevnet.com /news/2002/232/news10.html (832 words)

	FAST Search and Transfer Review on Search Engine Showdown
		The Web Search Unit of FAST was bought by Overture in Feb. 2003.
		Debuting in May 1999, the Norwegian company, Fast Search and Transfer, offered their Fast search engine at www.alltheweb.com running on Dell computers.
		Starting at an impressive 80 million URLs, Fast grew to 200 million by August 1999 and 300 million in January 2000.
	www.searchengineshowdown.com /features/fast (174 words)

	Fast Search & Transfer Inc. White Papers, Webcasts, Case Studies and Product Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		FAST provides businesses and government organizations with the ability to intelligently and dynamically, access, retrieve and analyze information in real time, regardless of data format, structure, or location.
		FAST creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at the world?s best known companies with the most demanding search problems.
		FAST is headquartered in Norway and is publicly traded under the ticker symbol 'FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
	forbes.bitpipe.com /detail/ORG/979320148_449.html (366 words)

	FAST, Cognos Partner To Improve Enterprise Search - Technology News by TechWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) and Cognos are moving to combine their respective expertise in enterprise search and business intelligence to move both technologies to a new level.
		In an announcement Monday, the firms said they are joining the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP) with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence in a partnership to deliver a brace of corporate content directly to users in organizations whether they are sophisticated or novice BI consumers.
		Ali Riaz, FAST president, said the goal of the partnership with Cognos is to provide enterprise users with simple one-click access to their relevant data.
	www.techweb.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187203037 (651 words)

	Battle over control of Fast Search & Transfer \| Tech News on ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The real prize, though, is not Opticom but its 27 percent controlling stake in search technology company Fast Search & Transfer.
		Fast makes real-time data search and filter software for businesses, and has signed deals with major international companies.
		Fast management said it bought the shares to secure an ownership of Fast with a long-term view.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9588_22-5985718.html (724 words)

	Fast Search & Transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fast Search and Transfer ASA (recursive acronym FAST) (OSE: FAST) is a Norwegian company based in Oslo.
		FAST is a public company traded in the Oslo Stock Exchange.
		FAST also offers a number of search-derivative applications, focused on specific search use cases, including publishing, market intelligence and mobile search.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fast_Search_and_Transfer (282 words)

	JOHN LERVIK - FAST SEARCH & TRANSFER ASA (FAST): 2001-11-19
		For the Internet space we are providing Web search services, meaning that if you go to a Terra Lycos portal in the US, or to a T-Online or Tiscali portal in Europe, you will see these portals are powered by FAST Search services.
		If you go to ibm.com, the search part is on the top of the bar, and the reason they moved it to the top was because they felt they had such a good search service.
		FAST, as I mentioned in the very beginning of the interview, is a technology company and we have been too broad in terms of what we have been doing.
	www.twst.com /pdf/fast_ol.html (3301 words)

	Fast accelerates enterprise search \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2004-01-27 \| By Cathleen Moore
		Fast Search and Transfer on Tuesday introduced an expanded search platform designed to provide a single point of access to all enterprise information regardless of data format, structure, or location.
		Dubbed Fast ESP (enterprise search platform), the platform offers a modular, Java-based framework that combines data and text mining techniques to not only find information, but also make sense of it in context of the organization, according to John Rueter, vice president of global marketing at Fast.
		Fast leverages its ESP platform to fuel search derivative applications, which are specialized search-dependent packages deployed to solve specific business problems.
	www.infoworld.com /article/04/01/27/HNfast_1.html (1110 words)

	Fast Releases FAST ProPublish
		FAST ProPublish, released by Fast Search & Transfer ASA, an enterprise search and real-time alerting technology developer based in Oslo, Norway, is the first publishing solution delivered on an enterprise search platform, the company said.
		One of the long-term value-added benefits in using this tool is its ability to present researchers with search results and content from publications for which they might not have existing subscriptions; researchers have the ability to view and purchase that content within the platform.
		Fast Search & Transfer ASA is known for its enterprise search and technology solutions and with the release of FAST ProPublish has now directed its expansion toward increasing market share in the management of content and search-based solutions in the publishing arena.
	www.publish.com /article2/0,1895,1772446,00.asp (701 words)

	Fast updates corporate search technology \| Tech News on ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fast Search & Transfer on Monday introduced a new version of its real-time navigation technology for corporate networks, in a bid to capture a bigger piece of the competitive enterprise search market.
		"Fast Data Search is now providing organizations with real-time data analysis and business management tools that allow them to maximize their business objectives and to free up IT resources to concentrate on larger issues," Fast CEO John Lervik said in a statement.
		Fast sells three corporate search products: Data Search Professional, Data Search Enterprise and Data Search SST, which are 3D scalable to hundreds of terabytes of data and can perform thousands of queries per second.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-993940.html (697 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fast Search & Transfer ASA announced that it has signed an agreement with Wolters Kluwer to deploy the FAST Enterprise Search Platform.
		Fast Search & Transfer ASA announced that it has signed an agreement with IKEA to deploy the FAST Enterprise Search Platform.
		Fast Search & Transfer ASA announced that it has signed an agreement with The United Nations to deploy their FAST Enterprise Search Platform.
	today.reuters.com /stocks/KeyDevelopments.aspx?symbol=FAST.OL (353 words)

	Fast Search & Transfer gets personal - vnunet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Norwegian enterprise search company Fast Search and Transfer has announced the availability of its Personalised Search Platform (PSP) which integrates with the firm's Enterprise Search Platform.
		Oslo-based Fast is increasingly considered a significant competitor to Google in the enterprise search space.
		Fast PSP provides an enterprise-focused platform that allows users to search on local drives, across the enterprise and on the web.
	www.vnunet.com /vnunet/news/2165596/fast-search-transfer-gets (539 words)

	FAST and Cognos Team to Deliver Enterprise Business Intelligence Through Searchs
		Search Service delivers a solution which enables users to leverage sophisticated enterprise search functionality to quickly and easily find reports, analysis, scorecards, dashboards, and other business intelligence information, along with corporate content such as documents, e-mail and other forms of structured and unstructured business information distributed across the enterprise.
		Leveraging the power of Contextual Insight™, FAST ESP is able to analyze and interpret the underlying meaning behind reports, not just the reports themselves, providing users with a single search across all of their information, including their business intelligence information.
		FAST is the leading developer of enterprise search technologies and solutions that are behind the scenes at the world’s best known companies with the most demanding search problems.
	www.cognos.com /news/releases/2006/0515_2.html (1353 words)

	TechWeb: The Business Technology Network (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As a member of the FAST X10 Partner Program, Groxis will be positioned to provide new and existing FAST customers the ability to enhance their enterprise search configuration with a new breed of visual search tools designed to accelerate information discovery and actionable research from FAST search results.
		Grokker adds value and utility to FAST ESP with a powerful tool set that includes extensive visual exploration and analysis of search results, and intuitive collaborative tools that allow workers to share and export research results in a variety of formats or email results sets within the enterprise.
		"FAST is recognized as one of the most innovative, agile and effective enterprise search providers in the market," said R.J. Pittman, President and CEO of Groxis.
	www.techweb.com.cob-web.org:8888 /showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X426704 (490 words)

	Fast, Quiet and Under Control
		Riaz is both the CFO and the COO of Fast Search & Transfer, and he’s referring specifically to the indifference of the press.
		Fast’s site search platform uses a contextual analysis component of its algorithm, cleverly called the “Sentimeter”, to scan the content the Web operator client selects and produce these rankings.
		AOL is a large Internet company with diverse media holdings, and the ability to roll out an integrated search platform across several of those properties on their own timetable might have been key to the deal.
	searchlineinfo.com /Fast_Search_Transfer (1246 words)

	CareerBuilder Passes Up Google For Another Search Engine - News by InformationWeek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Specifically, it needed the ability to distribute search functions among an increasing number of servers, as well as supporting an ever-growing volume of search queries.
		Fast met Presley's requirements and offered speed far beyond what CareerBuilder had experienced, making it unnecessary to cache pages.
		He also says Fast's ability to accommodate real-time updates is letting CareerBuilder make new information available to the search engine within 30 seconds.
	www.informationweek.com /story/IWK20030122S0008 (367 words)

	FAST Data Search - SearchTools Report
		FAST (Fast Search and Transfer) has purchased the AltaVista Enterprise Search business from Overture, which will retain the Web portal search engine.
		The speed of the FAST search engine, up to 140 searches per second, and near-real-time index updates were other considerations in the choice.
		FAST announces that eBay will be installing the FAST search engine, though no details or timetable are given.
	www.searchtools.com /tools/fastsearch.html (607 words)

	Fast Search and Transfer (FAST.OL) Stock Quote \| Stocks \| Reuters.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There are no recent News Headlines for Fast Search and Transfer.
		Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST) is a Norway-based specialty information technology company.
		The Company specializes in the development of real-time search and filter technology solutions, offering advanced features in content delivery, as well as information, data and media retrieval.
	stocks.us.reuters.com /stocks/overview.asp?symbol=FAST.OL (180 words)

	Fast Search & Transfer Announces Second Quarter and Half Year 2004 Results
		FAST Marketrac gathers, analyzes, and communicates critical market intelligence from multiple, disparate sources throughout an enterprise and the Web, enabling organizations to increase the productivity and effectiveness of their marketing analysts and decision makers, thereby reducing costs and improving revenues.
		FAST Marketrac is the first of three Search Derivative Applications (SDAs) that FAST plans to unveil in 2004.
		FAST's strategic OEM agreement with Computer Associates (CA) in Q2 is a key example of the types of partnerships it plans to develop throughout the remainder of 2004 to further expand its presence in a wider variety of markets.
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2004/Aug/1062327.htm (1789 words)

	ITworld.com - FAST tunes up enterprise search software
		Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST) has updated its line of enterprise search software, offering new search management tools and the ability to interactively drill-down on query results.
		The FAST Data Search 3.2 product line, due out Monday, offers a significant upgrade to the Oslo, Norway company's corporate search offerings, and underscores the firm's focus on the enterprise market, according to John Felahi, director of product marketing at FAST.
		FAST Data Search 3.2 will be available worldwide Monday through both FAST and its channel partners.
	www.itworld.com /App/255/030324fast (775 words)

	Fast Search & Transfer sets out strategy to beat Google - Information World Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Launching its Personal Search Platform (PSP), Fast said it hoped package deals from publishers like Elsevier would provide users with a one-stop-shop for scientific information, web and desktop search.
		When users search their desktop with PSP, a behind-the-scenes agent connects you to the repositories at Elsevier, for example.” The application then scans the web and Elsevier repositories simultaneously for content fitting the search criteria.
		Desktop search tools that can be downloaded free from Google, MSN and Yahoo have attracted a lot of media coverage, but Phillips believes that security fears about them in IT departments will prevent them from becoming serious business tools.
	www.iwr.co.uk /information-world-review/news/2146375/fast-search-transfer-sets (287 words)

	FAST - Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		FAST solutions are operational at over 3500 mission-critical installations.
		A special few are so broadly applicable we packaged them as Search Derivative Applications, providing a complete end-to-end product.
		Each solution is based on one of our award-winning platforms and includes specific options to address specific business needs.
	www.fastsearch.com /thesolution.aspx?m=212 (142 words)

	FAST Search and Transfer Technology To Power MapQuest
		News from Fast Search and Transfer that their Enterprise Search Platform technology will be used to power MapQuest.
		This is the second time we've heard about AOL (MapQuest is a wholly owned subsidiary) announcing a deal with Fast Search and Transfer.
		In January, Chris mentioned that Fast Search and Transfer is providing AOL with a crawl of the web for their local web search tool.
	blog.searchenginewatch.com /blog/050712-121047 (192 words)

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