FAST Search
No games, no calendars, no photo albums. Like Raging Search and Google, FAST Search does just one thing: search. Though FAST Search is aggressive about increasing its database size (it plans to have a billion pages by 2001), it needs to iron out a few wrinkles before becoming a serious player.
FAST Search did reasonably well when we targeted a specific Web site, such as Linux Documentation Project. It also performed impressively on very focused queries such as deep blue +chess. Unfortunately, FAST Search has a tendency to bring up numerous pages from the same site, and unlike some of the other search engines in our roundup, it offers no way to group such results. Another of FAST Search's quirks is that it neither automatically stems word endings, nor supports wildcards. If you want a search to cover variations of a word, you must list each of them in your query. Looking for information on pricey mushrooms? You'll need to use a minus sign to specify truffles -(chocolate chocolates).
FAST Search does not support traditional Boolean syntax, but you can include or exclude keywords with plus or minus signs or by using the drop-down pick lists on the Advanced Search page. FAST Search also offers field searching, domain filtering, and language filtering
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