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Fast’s Desktop Search Platform Comes Gunning For Google Oct. 24, 2005

Proliferation of desktop search software also is raising security concerns.
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek

Enterprise search vendor Fast Search & Transfer ASA has designs on your desktop, onscreen real estate that’s still hotly contested by the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, not to mention a slew of enterprise search competitors including Autonomy, dtSearch, Intellext, X1 Technologies, and (soon) Verity.

Fast on Monday introduced the Fast Personal Search Platform, software that allows customers to create and deploy — internally or for external customers — their own branded, customizable search service that unifies desktop, intranet, and Internet search, while offering access to corporate data stores in customer-relationship-management, sales-force-automation, and enterprise-resource-planning systems.

“We’re basically opening up for everyone to be a Google on the desktop,” says Ali Riaz, president of Fast.

To put it another way, Fast is offering an opportunity to keep Google off the desktop. “Big corporations came to us and said ‘Listen, we want to do something about Google Desktop,’” Riaz explains.

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