FAST Lands New Client: Elsevier Engineering Info

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Elsevier's Ei Product is well-known in the engineering and library world's.

Full-Announcement [fastsearch.com]

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Fast Search & Transfer™ (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time alerting technologies, announced today that Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc. (Ei), a leader in providing online information to the engineering community, has fully deployed FAST Data Search™ to power the search and retrieval capabilities of its Engineering Village2 platform...FAST Data Search provides users of Ei’s EngineeringVillage2 with highly relevant search results from the databases Compendex® and INSPEC® (combined total of over 14 million documents) within sub-second speeds.

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Elsevier is also the company behind Scirus [scirus.com], the scientific search engine powered by Fast.
Fast's enterprise section has really been successfull in getting important prestigous customers. Seeing that it is in fact powered by the same core technology as the websearch product it's hard to believe they shouldn't be able to land another huge partnership for websearch.