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FAST ESP (Enterprise Search Platform) is a generic search engine capable of indexing structured as well as unstructured content from a multitude of sources and content repositories. Mainstream support for FAST ESP v 5.3 ended in 2013.

FAST ESP (Enterprise Search Platform) is a generic search engine capable of indexing structured as well as unstructured content from a multitude of sources and content repositories.

It was developed by a Norwegian company named Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST), that was acquired by Microsoft in 2008.

Mainstream support for FAST ESP v 5.3 ended in 2013, and extended support ends in 2018.

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How to efficiently feed FAST ESP with gigabytes of data with .NET

This will be a tricky question but I will try anyway: our task is to feed Microsoft FAST ESP with gigabytes of data. The final amount of indexed data is somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-60GB. FAST has a .NET API but core components are written in…
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Enterprise Search: Has anybody developed on FAST ESP? What did you think about it?

I work for a scandinavian yellow pages. The company is looking at moving its bespoke search technology over to FAST ESP. Like all big, expensive systems with relatively few installations, it is difficult to get feedback on the strengths and…
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Robots.txt to disallow everything and allow only specific parts of the site/pages. Is "allow" supported by crawlers like Ultraseek and FAST?

Just wanted to know if it is possible to disallow the whole site for crawlers and allow only specific webpages or sections? Is "allow" supported by crawlers like FAST and Ultraseek?
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FAST ESP vs Google Search Appliance for development

Which of the two provides a better API for developing on top of? Although there is a virtual Google Search Appliance available for download, no such equivalent is present for FAST. So looking to developers with experience in either of these products…
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FAST For SharePoint Web Crawler Meta Tag Extraction

I am using FAST For SharePoint to crawl a non SharepPoint website. The website crawled with no error, I can get the results of any keyword. I want to create refiner on result page by html page meta tags. There must be two level refiner; category and…
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FAST ESP 5.3 SP4 - Turkish tr-tr fails

Im using dotnet search api for FAST ESP 5.3. Everything works fine except for culture tr-tr i.e cultureid=1055. Getting exception as "Error parsing information" on executing the below line qr = view.Search(query); Can anybody please throw some…
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How can I input XML data from an external web service into a scope field during a custom FAST ESP pipeline stage written in python?

We have an external web service that we access during a custom pipeline stage in FAST. Our task is to get the XML that is output by this web service and store it into a scope field. At this point we have tried the following things: Inputting the…
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String sorting algorithm in FAST ESP

Is anyone aware of sorting logic in FAST ESP engine ver. 5.3? How special characters are handled and how sorting of Japanese and Chinese words is performed? Here are top 8 of search results which were sorted in ascending order: 門 ¿ c ¿ c¡a «n »c ‹e…
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Google Search, FAST ESP and Lucene

Has anybody come across or created a functionality comparison document between the various enterprise search options like Google Search Appliance, Fast ESP, Lucene? Any helpful pointers or links much appreciated.
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Multi-Valued Managed Properties with FAST Search Server and SharePoint 2010

My scenario is a SharePoint 2010 environment with installed FAST Search Server. I am using the SharePoint KeywordQuery class with FQL (Fast Query Language) to execute queries against the FAST index. My problem: Apparently Fast Search Server 'does…
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How does FAST ESP's xrank operator work?

I have a bunch of documents in my index. They all have "text" in field1. One has "boosttext" in field2. I want FAST to put the document with "boosttext" to the front of the result set. I tried this FQL query: and(field1:string("text"),…
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Fast ESP character normalization

I'm running a search application on a FAST ESP server. Now I have this problem with character normalization. What I want is to search for 'wurth' and get a hit in 'würth'. i've tried configuring the following in esp/etc/tokenizer/tokenization.xml …
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enterprise search engine development asking for advice

I am asked to either deploy or develop an enterprise (intranet) search engine which could index all web pages of a couple of internal servers, and have a search portal to display all related content, like what Google is doing but for intranet. Any…
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Accessing FAST ESP admin services (Dictionary and Deployment manager) from .net

I am looking for a way to access the FAST ESP Admin services from within my .net code. The situation is, we have dictionaries deployed in FAST for autocomplete, spellcheck etc. and we are looking to build an application layer to maintain and…
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Client tool to query remote FAST ESP 5.3 server accessible over http

Is there a client tool available to execute FAST queries on a remote FAST ESP 5.3 server that is accessible over http?
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