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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. That's ok... by Cytlid · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I'm going to snipe them and bid 1.3 Billion at the last second.

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    FLR
    1. Re:That's ok... by JeepFanatic · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're assuming that Microsoft doesn't have a proxy bid in place already to outbid you during your snipe attempt.

  2. Thought MS already had a Google beating ........ by jmhowitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..... search engine? Why do they need two?

  3. Great by teebob21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    khasim (12/9/06): In a blind taste test, more people preferred Coke over the Pepsi that I had previously pissed in.
  4. Dyslexic Recursive Acronym by StCredZero · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a Dyslexic Recursive Algorithm, or a DAR.

  5. Re:Recursive acronym... but... by jdray · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about the recursive marketing? Microsoft can bundle FAST [for] its soon-to-be-customers Comcast, Disney, Microsoft, Pfizer, and UBS.

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    Updated 6/28/2011
  6. Re:self-recursive acronym by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:self-recursive acronym by Torvaun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, those examples are LAME.

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    I see your informative link, and raise you a pithy comment.
  8. No, it's just Microsoft by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  9. Re:What they are going after... by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they're going after grep?

  10. Microsoft, terror of the seven seas! by 6-tew · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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!"