Microsoft's FAST Bid Signals a Shift in Search
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Enterprise search companies and analysts say Microsoft's deal to buy FASTshows the market has arrived.
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Microsoft Corp. last week released a preview version of its new Internet search engine. It will be available in its final form early next year.
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SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. , the number three US Web-search provider, is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid $1.2 billion for Fast Search and Transfer, based in Oslo, in an effort to add more tools to its lucrative Office products.
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Microsoft made a $1.2 billion bid on Norwegian enterprise search vendor, Fast Search and Transfer, or FAST, a company that could boost its Office product suite and compete with Google.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has offered to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion), it said Tuesday.
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In the midst of the world's CES frenzy, Microsoft today announced plans to acquire Fast Search & Transfer, a financially and legally troubled Norwegian-based software firm offering highly regarded search software for online ad serving.
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Microsoft's search and advertising head spoke said the company is taking steps to improve its search market position.
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Microsoft Corp joined the battle for supremacy in so-called desktop search, introducing software for quickly locating files on personal computers that challenges Googleâs two-month-old rival product.
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Says improved search capabilities will return results an average of 10 times faster than before.
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Anybody who is anybody in the Web-search realm -- and that list now includes Google, Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) -- is acting quickly to stake a claim on the most lucrative piece of real estate in the search world: personal computer users' desktops.
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Wants to mine web with Fast buy Microsoft is to acquire Norwegian business search engine company Fast Search and Transfer for 6.6bn kroner ($1.23bn).â¦
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In an attempt to catch up to industry leader Google, Microsoft redesigns its Live Search service. The company claims to have better relevance, improved performance and beefier indexing, but the results disappoint.
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Microsoft Corp. is formally launching its new Internet search engine, several months after it debuted in test form.
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The software maker is in the midst of a major revamp to its search product. Over the coming weeks, the company will make more changes, including to the engine itself. Whether the changes add up to more eyeballs is an open question.
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U.S. software giant Microsoft  said on Tuesday it would bid 19 crowns per share for Norwegian Internet search software firm Fast Search & Transfer , valuing the company at about $1.2 billion.
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Changes to come in Microsoft Windows Vista will allow users to select a default desktop search program that's not Windows Instant Search.