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For Fast Search, bigger means better in search engines
By Ilaina Jonas
NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) - When it comes to search engines, the Internet tool that helps viewers scan the Web for sites of interest, Norwegian company Fast Search & Transfer ASA is betting that size does matter.
On Monday, the company will unveil what it is marketing as ''The World's Biggest Search Engine'' (http://www.alltheweb.com), which it says will scan 200 million of the Web's estimated 800 million pages.......
Fast Search's infrastructure is a collection of Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL - news) Power Edge servers, that sell for abut $5,000 to $10,000 a piece. Burns said it can be expanded easily, with most of the machines dedicated to delivering searches and other used specifically to search the Web for new sites. Brodin said the company will charge its portal networks partners between $1 and $4 per 1,000 queries, said Brodin
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