Fast Search & Transfer™ (FAST) announced that another major e-commerce site, Dell.com, has deployed FAST Data Search™ to power the site’s search function. Dell joins AT&T, IBM, InfoSpace, Reed Elsevier (Scirus.com), Reuters and Terra Lycos, among others.
In related news, the competition between Google and AllTheWeb for the accolade as “best” search engine continues with the release of a new bench test study. The results indicate that “AllTheWeb just needs to increase the frequency of their robot crawls and Google would have some formidable competition.”