Fast Data Search Deployed on Freeserve.com, the Number One Internet Portal and ISP in The U.K.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OSLO, Norway and HEMEL HEMPSTEAD Hemel Hempstead (hĕm`əl), town (1991 pop. 80,110), Hertfordshire, SE England. Hemel Hempstead was designated one of the new towns in 1946 to alleviate overpopulation in London. It is a market town and London suburb. , England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2002 Freeserve.com users now able to retrieve 20 times more online content with a freshness rate four times better than before Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time alert technologies, and Freeserve, the UK's No. 1 for the Internet, today announced that FAST Data Search(TM) is now powering Freeserve.com with advanced linguistics support, classification and categorization all within a single comprehensive search solution. "The flexibility and scalability of FAST Data Search's unified platform is providing Freeserve with an ideal information management and retrieval solution," said Jon Gisby, Freeserve Managing Director, Portals. "With FAST Data Search, our users are now able to retrieve the freshest information available from multiple sources including Freeserve's e-commerce, partner, member, directory, content, and services pages across a variety of platforms. The results we've seen clearly demonstrate FAST's ability to solve the most difficult data problems and deliver the freshest content with greater meaning and relevance to the over 5 million unique users per month who use our services." FAST Data Search's scalability enables large, enterprise companies such as Freeserve to keep up with the ever-expanding amount of content collected in their data sources. FAST Data Search is solving the most difficult search and information management needs for Freeserve by providing them with a flexible, core search and information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. solution that captures structured and unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. in a variety of formats. "We are pleased that Freeserve is achieving its goal of greatly improving its information retrieval performance and overall search experience for its customers through the use of our award-winning FAST Data Search software," said Dr. John M. Lervik, chief executive officer of FAST. "Freeserve's cost-efficient deployment provides further evidence of FAST Data Search's ability to provide large Internet and enterprise companies with a highly flexible and scalable search solution that dramatically improves ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and lowers total cost of ownership." With its highly scalable and modular configuration, FAST Data Search delivers solutions for customers who want to increase the speed and performance of searches, successfully complete transactions at a lower cost, and generate additional revenues. From smaller installations to the most demanding cases where frequent real-time updates are made to existing data and large numbers of users need to search common data in real-time, FAST Data Search supplies a complete information retrieval solution. With advanced linguistic technologies, support for over 225 file formats and 49 languages, and categorization and dynamic result clustering, FAST Data Search quickly connects users to the information they seek, thereby providing an opportunity to turn information into action. About Freeserve (www.freeserve.com) Freeserve is the leading ISP-portal with an integrated offering of UK-focused content, e-commerce and services and Internet access See how to access the Internet. . Freeserve has 2.505 million active registered accounts and 4.781 million(1) unique users. In February 2002, Freeserve was named Best National Consumer ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. by the UK's Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. Association. Freeserve is part of Wanadoo SA, a leading European online media and services company, which has as its major shareholder France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies. Wanadoo SA is a leading Internet media services provider in France, the UK and a co-leader in Spain and is also present in the Netherlands and Belgium. Including Freeserve, Wanadoo S.A has 7.8 million active registered users and 20 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month to its portals. Freeserve was launched in September 1998 as part of Dixons, Europe's leading consumer electronics retailer. Dixons Group remains a minority shareholder in Wanadoo S.A and Freeserve distributes its access software in th UK through Dixons' network of over 1,000 Dixons, Currys, PC World and The Link stores. (1) NetValue, June 2002 About FAST Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at some of the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST's flexible and scalable integrated technology platform spans both Internet and enterprise customers, and elevates search to unprecedented levels. FAST closes the gap between information and action, connecting people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium, in turn driving revenue and reducing total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure for our clients and world-class partners. FAST search technology is currently deployed by a wide range of global customers and partners including AT&T, BroadVision, CareerBuilder, Chordiant, Dell, Freeserve, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , InfoSpace, Reed Elsevier (Scirus.com), Reuters, T-Online, Terra Lycos, and Tiscali. FAST has operations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. (Boston, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ), Europe (Norway, France, Germany, Italy, UK), and Japan, and is publicly traded under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors 'FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway. . Please visit www.fastsearch.com for more information or see FAST in action at our technology showcase www.alltheweb.com. (C) 2002 Fast Search & Transfer ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and - Fast Search & Transfer, FAST, and the FAST four-colored logo are trademarks of Fast Search & Transfer ASA. All rights reserved. FAST disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. 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