Now FAST Gets AltaVista Enterprise from
Overture
June 17, 2003: On top of all the continuing confusion of acquisitions and
ownerships changes in the search engine field, comes this one. Earlier this
year Overture bought up AltaVista and the FAST Web Search business including
AlltheWeb. That left FAST Search and Transfer with the FAST enterprise
search business but not the public Web searching business. Now Overture is
selling the AltaVista enterprise search portion of AltaVista to FAST.
Confused? Try the FAST press release. But basically, Overture now owns the
AltaVista and AlltheWeb and FAST public Web search engines. FAST Search &
Transfer has the FAST and AltaVista enterprise search engines (for site
search, intranet search, etc.).
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