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4 Responses to “(English) FAST – a Microsoft Subsidiary”

1. spyresearch Says:
   mai 10th, 2009 at 0:53

   Does this mean that the Norwegian search engine vendor Fast Search will be calling home now? should we expect our machine to call home to M.S. every time we use this ? It does have a desktop search, may be they could use that to tie it to their O.S. like they did their browser. (The reason I don’t use it!)
   Be sure and let us know so we can make preparation’s to jump ship!

2. janhoy Says:
   mai 10th, 2009 at 23:26

   I wouldn’t worry about that. The FAST search engine is and will be in use in all different kind of applications, web sites and company intranets for years to come about the same way as today. Why should it wanna “call home”? Even more companies will adopt it in small-scale as the pricing model dramatically changes for the small intranet deployments, and I guess one thing MS could do is to create a federation between Live search and a companys intranet search results. But customer data would still stay within the firewalls. We’ll also see FAST technoloy making its way into Live Search as well.

   The only thing I’d worry about is to let MS host your business search index in a possible future (Windows Azure) hosted index, with all the security implications that could cause.

   It will be an exciting evolution to follow, and see who manages to predict where search is going and how to leverage the technology to keep up.

3. spyresearch Says:
   juni 2nd, 2009 at 22:47

   Well; I hope M.S. keeps getting the many messages and knows how to read between the lines;such as how one can hardly resist poking at them a bit to keep them reminded that not everything on the net and peoples machines should be so Live, and somethings are better off left with the owner in control. That way maybe they won’t make the same mistakes twice. They have come a long way from open active-x (starting with wide open from the wrong end! So to speak) and things like interpreting everything with everything else being no way to go.
   So maybe I haven’t drifted too far away; and I hope the search engine works out great for both sides.
   Later friend

4. FAST to abandon Linux and Unix | Cominvent AS - Enterprise search consultants Says:
   februar 8th, 2010 at 16:57

   [...] should not be a shock to anyone, and I hinted to this danger in my blog post about the acquisition: Let us not hope that the Linux, AIX and Solaris versions will be discontinued. I don’t expect [...]

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