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<abstract xmlns="http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0">All the web - All the TimeTM Fast Search (http://www.alltheweb.com/) is the trademark of a product which appeared on the international search engines market with well defined ambitions: being able – in a short time – to ‘catalog’ all (or the majority of) the web sites. Born in 1997 among experts from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, FAST aimed at providing a product matching two needs (need that then and now are prioritary in the world of information users): efficiency and rapidity in information retrieve and download time for texts and above all for immages (both still and moving).</abstract>
