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matsemann
on Oct 4, 2023
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Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate co...
Norway also had the FAST search company acquired by Microsoft. Is Norway particularly good at making search stuff?
jkb79
on Oct 4, 2023
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Actually, Vespa comes out of the same FAST company. Yahoo bought Overture/Altavista and a lot of other web search companies in 2003, including the web search division of FAST. The Enterprise search division of FAST was later acquired by Microsoft.
matsemann
on Oct 5, 2023
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Ah, I see. Thanks for some background!
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