Microsoft planning a European Search Technology Centre
US based software giant Microsoft continues to work hard on improving their search technologies to compete effectively against Google.
The company has now announced their plans to establish a European Search Technology Centre.
This center would work on improving the search technologies used by their Live Search engine.
This announcement [...]

Microsoft acquiring Fast Search & Transfer
Software giant Microsoft has announced that they are acquiring Fast Search & Transfer.
The company added that CEO of Fast, John Markus Lervik would now lead their effort to create a single enterprise search platform.
This platform would be powered by their existing technologies like Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, [...]

Microsoft takes majority control over Fast Search & Transfer
Looks like Microsoft is on an acquisition spree. The company has now stated that they now own 92.6 percent of Norwegian search software firm Fast Search & Transfer.
The US based software giant has also now extended its takeover offer.
They had last month announced a bid [...]