Fast Search & Transfer

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Fast Search & Transfer ASA

Type	Public
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Key people	John M. Lervik (CEO)
Area served	Norway
Industry	Information Technology
Products	Search engines
Revenue	USD 162.2 million (2006), 62% higher compared to 2005
Employees	750
Website	http://www.fastsearch.com

Fast Search & Transfer ASA (recursive acronym FAST) (OSE: FAST) is a Norwegian company based in Oslo. FAST focuses on enterprise real-time data search technologies. It originally owned the web search-engine AlltheWeb as which was later sold to Overture in 2003, now part of Yahoo!.

FAST is a public company traded in the Oslo Stock Exchange. It also has offices located in Germany, Italy, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other places all around the world. The company was founded in 1997.

FAST also offers a number of search-derivative applications, focused on specific search use cases, including publishing, market intelligence and mobile search.

The Search Derivative Applications (SDA) are built upon the Enterprise Search Platform (ESP). ESP is a Service-oriented architecture development platform which is geared towards production searchable indexes. It provides a flexible framework for creating ETL applications for efficient indexing of searchable content.

Currently, Fast is developing PHAROS, a new European multimedia search engine.