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Microsoft Buys Search Engine, Going After Google?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yeah-sure-why-not dept.

obsolete1349 writes "Microsoft has just bid 1.2 billion dollars for FAST (Fast Search And Transfer [Microsoft to use a self-recursive acronym?]), an enterprise search company. 'Microsoft can bundle FAST with its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server' with its soon-to-be-customers Comcast, Disney, Microsoft, Pfizer, and UBS."

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  1. Re:What they are going after... by mfbatzap · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    prob looking into ways to search through their damn OS much faster LOL

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