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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:MS paid too much for bad software by INeededALogin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A company that is incapable of profiting from its products normally indicates that the product is lacking.

    or...

    the market is saturated
    the market is not ready
    the company can't market

    If the technology is good then Microsoft probably wants to use it and prevent Yahoo, Google and others from buying it.

  2. Re:self-recursive acronym by sammy+baby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Plus, FAST doesn't really qualify as a recursive acronym. The F in the acronym FAST stands for the word fast, not for the acronym itself. Contrast with GNU (GNU's Not Unix), or PINE (Pine Is Not Elm) or...

    Oh wait - nobody cares. Nevermind.

  3. Re:self-recursive acronym by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    DRM: DRM Rapes Music? ;-)

    (or Movies, your choice)

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    Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!