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.