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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. WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Not only is the acronym not reflecting the name, but apparently Microsoft is a client of Microsoft...

    Seems like an infinite loop to me...

  2. Re:Dyslexic Recursive Acronym by modecx · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Totally RAD, dude!

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