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Microsoft Buys Search Engine, Going After Google?
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."
...I'm going to snipe them and bid 1.3 Billion at the last second.
FLR
..... search engine? Why do they need two?
You mean ... a search engine powered by Logo!?
What a wonderful development; MS buys FAST for search, and the majority of the computing world faces a little more SLOW: Software Lock-in On Windows.
khasim (12/9/06): In a blind taste test, more people preferred Coke over the Pepsi that I had previously pissed in.
It's a Dyslexic Recursive Algorithm, or a DAR.
Fast Search And Transfer would be FSAT or FST, not FAST. Microsoft is allowed to have self-recursive acronyms if they are bugged. ;)
FAST in the UK is the Federation Against Software Theft http://www.fast.org.uk/ I completely mis-read this, that Microsoft are investing in copyright protection.
How about the recursive marketing? Microsoft can bundle FAST [for] its soon-to-be-customers Comcast, Disney, Microsoft, Pfizer, and UBS.
The Spoon
Updated 6/28/2011
The problem is, that when everyone else does it, it's quite cool. When Microsoft does it, I get the same cringing feeling that I do when watching one of my parents dancing.
Summation 2
Yeah, those examples are LAME.
I see your informative link, and raise you a pithy comment.
Version 1.0 has the screwed up acronym.
Version 1.0 SP1 will correct it to the incorrect FaSAT.
Version 2.0 will change it to FaST.
Version 3.0 will be FSAT.
Infuriate left and right
You Do Not Mention the FSAT.
(No, it's actually FAst Search and Transfer)
Matthew,
Thanks for taking an indepth look at our pending bid. We thought it would be a good idea, but we didn't spend any time researching the deal and seeing if it would be worth it. You are totally right and totally were able to explore all the facets of the deal and show us the error of our ways. Geez, we're dumb sometimes!
Thanks again,
Bill Gates
So they're going after grep?
"There's be gold in them thar Interwebs! Set sail fer Norway!"
"But Cap'in, the ship! She be takin on water!"
"Damn the water! Norway and GOLD! ."
And so the Dread Pirates of Redmond sailed to Norway, but their ship, the M.S.N. Vista, sank on the return trip due to rot brought about by years of shoddy repair work and the weight of countless ill-advised upgrades and too much booty. A combination which had rendered it a lumbering hulk, no longer seaworthy.
Show of hands, whose surprised Microsoft wants to go after Google?
Second show of hands, who thinks Pirate metaphors should be used to illustrate everything?
"Yarrrr!"
Microsoft Is Constantly Reinventing Operating Systems to Obsolete Future Technology.
OK, somebody else try to do better.
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Apparently, they thought they were going after "gerp", whatever the hell that is.