Submission + - Microsoft To Overtake Google Search Empire? (zdnet.com)
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.