FAST Jump into the SEO Game

They are more than welcome :)

They have not exactly gone into the SEO/SEM biz, what they have done is launched a "Search Best Practices Conslting Service".

In the words of Ali Riaz, their COO, “While enterprise search technology has evolved as a significant and vital piece of many IT infrastructures, a large majority of businesses are still unaware of the great potential that search holds for aggregating, unifying and retrieving both structured and unstructured information to leverage all of their information assets, FAST SBP helps companies address these challenges head-on, and enables them to maximize the return on their technology investments through improved organizational efficiency and strategic business growth. The services are provided in a vendor-agnostic manner, as the customer’s unique circumstances and strategic objectives are the core and key focus of this offering.” More info here.

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And thanks to FastSearch for giving us all a good quote we can use from now on:

We want to enable our clients "to maximize the return on their technology investments through improved organizational efficiency and strategic business growth in a vendor-agnostic manner, as their unique circumstances and strategic objectives are the core and key focus of our being."

I can't wait to slip it in one day.

Vendor-agnostic? Personally, I have complete faith in the existence of vendors.

Geeze - they really are putting the business speak on thick

Or: They are demonstrating a determination to vocalize in a lucid manner at an appropriate density given the situation.

I don't have anything against FAST, just seems a little over the top.

Wonder how long before THAT piece of irrelevance gets an entry in Webster's?

I don't have anything against FAST, just seems a little over the top.

Understatement of the year :)

1st - The Fast software is excellent. One of my clients have been using it on my recommendation for a couple of years - and the people at Fast have also been excellent.

If I was going into a government client in the UK and used the phrase I rewrote above, not only would I get the job but I would probably get a job as a speech writer for the Minister.

Also, this sort of stuff happens in every industry. For quite a number of years I was a music journalist for a UK national daily. When I read NME - I had to have a thesaurus.

Fast is owned by Yahoo, isn't it?

Honestly, I don't want to hear any more 'ethical' SEO posts if search engines jump into the SEM game. I really don't.

Whoever wrote/said that reminds me of Humphrey in Yes Minister - Check the video clip, it's spot on :)

Overture bought AllTheWeb from Fast, and then Yahoo bought Overture, so they own the search engine. But Fast remains as a separate company that sells enterprise search solutions.

sorry querty answered it. I'm a wally.

Edinburgh (Scotland) recently had a referendum for congestion charging.

The vote was 75% against 25% for. The 'transport guru' affectionately known as Councillor Bumbling Andy Burns who spent GBP 8 Million of the people's money on pushing for the charges gave this reply:

"It is personally a disappointment and I am surprised it has gone the way it has. I would stress though that a full 25% - a quarter of the people in Edinburgh - backed the scheme"

Howzat for being optimistic.

In fact there was only a 61% turnout, so in fact that full 25% wasn't true either.

Can we start a thread with things like this that just keeps going?