Thursday, October 21, 2010

Introduction to FAST ESP

Introduction to FAST ESP
  • FAST ESP is an integrated software application that provides searching and filtering services. It is a distributed system that enables information retrieval from any type of information, combining real-time searching, advanced linguistics, and a variety of content access options into a modular, scalable product suite.
    FAST ESP does the following:

    retrieves or accepts content from web sites, file servers, application-specific content systems, and direct import via API
  • transforms all content into an internal document representation
  • analyzes and processes these documents to allow for enhanced relevancy
  • indexes the documents and makes them searchable
  • processes search queries against these documents
  • applies algorithms or business rule-based ranking to the results
  • and presents the results along with navigation options.

Friday, December 11, 2009