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News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Friday, January 10, 2003 Homepage | Archives | Features | Events | Films | Industry Links Subscribe | Editorial Dead Zone | Around the Web | Jobs FAST Now Indexes MS Word Documents FAST is now including Microsoft Word documents within its web search results. Each Word document is labeled (MS Word) next to the title on a search results page. Users can also restrict search to only Word documents by using the using the pull-down menu in the 'results restriction' section of AlltheWeb's advanced searching page. "FAST provides its users with the highest quality of search results through advanced relevancy algorithms and leading freshness, combined with a large web index size and a rich set of file formats in our index," stated Tim Mayer, vice president, FAST Web Search. "Internal tests for this release have demonstrated improvements of over 12% in relevancy, further heightening the search experience for users. By now further improving on the relevancy of our search results, FAST is not only remaining highly competitive, but extending its leadership in the marketplace." Related Links: · FAST Search · AllTheWeb.com Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.