Fast Search and Transfer and InfoSpace to provide search services for phone companies.

By Pandia Guest Writer Lars VÃ¥ge

The Norwegian company Fast Search and Transfer has for several years been one of the best search technology companies in the world. The company is now entering the mobile search market.

Together with the American company InfoSpace (the company that bought the legendary search engine WebCrawler and the metasearch engines MetaCrawler and Dogpile) Fast is to produce so-called white-label solutions for mobile search. This means technologies and services other companies may brand as their own.

Fast and InfoSpace are to deliver a large web index and a technology that makes it easier for cellular phone users to find relevant content to download.

In other words: the two companies have developed a strategic partnership in order to establish a strong presence in the growing mobile search market.

Press release.

This article was originally published in Internetbrus, a Swedish blog on search engines and Internet searching that has been online since early 2001. It is written for both searchers and educators.

Internetbrus is owned and edited by Lars Våge and Lars Iselid. Lars Våge works as a librarian at Mitthögskolan and a programmer for JL Informationsteknik. Lars Iselid is a librarian at the Umeå University Library, freelance journalist for the computer magazine
Datormagazin, He can be found blogging under the pseudonym Cyrille at Iaslash.org.

Lars and Lars are co-authors of a book on Internet research: Informationssökning på Internet.

© 2007 Lars Våge and Lars Iselid