Enterprise search player (and former owner of AllTheWeb) Fast Search and Transfer has started the new year much like it ended 2004, adding new big name clients. A brief news release (also picked up by Reuters) informs us that the America Online has signed a contract to use Fast ESP, "across multiple applications throughout the organization." Precisely where the technology will be used (internal databases or external, publicly accessible databases) was not disclosed.
About a week ago, Fast announced that their technology was licensed by Factiva, a fee-based news and info database that is owned by Reuters and Dow Jones.
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