August 2, 1999 FAST (Fast Search & Transfer) has launched a new site called Alltheweb ("FAST Search: All the Web, All the Time") http://www.alltheweb.com/. The announced size of their index is more than 200 millions pages that is estimated as 25% of all web.
FATS Search server has the following benefits:

• Scalable search architecture (up to the TB per second range)
• Linear scalability
• Ultra high search speed and guaranteed response time based on query management and distribution
• Realisation for the following platforms (UltaSparc: Solaris; Alpha: Digital UNIX, NT; Intel: NT, Linux, BSD (FreeBSD), Solaris

Moderate data volume (up to approx. 1 million pages) accommodate support for approximate pattern matching according to a patented metric.
Implementations: Biggest Search Engine having approx. 200 millions indexed pages, Lycos FTP search (http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/).

FAST has special agreement with Dell, their Search Engine Alltheweb is powered by Dell PowerEdge Servers.

How to test.
Just try this mentioned phrase "to be or not to be" with quotation and without quotation in Alltheweb, Altavista, Google. You'll see big difference.

Another high-end technology provided by FAST is FAST Image Transfer that has better compression with the same quality comparing to JPEG format, it's specially oriented on web applications and has embedded thumbnail functionality and progressive multi-resolution image display. Plugings are available for Adobe Photoshop, MS IE and Netscape Navigator. File extension is .fst.

FAST Aims For Largest Index
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/99/05-fast.html
All The Web http://www.alltheweb.com/
FAST http://www.fast.no/
http://www-new.fast.no/company.html
http://www.fastweb.no/
FAST FTP Search - http://www.fastftp.lycos.com/
FAST Search Server
http://www.fast.no/product/fsserver.html
FAST SW Search
http://www.fast.no/product/fastsearch.html
Search Engine Size
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/sizes.html