FAST TO POWER SEARCH CAPABILITIES FOR ALLEGIS GROUP

First of Many Acquired AltaVista Enterprise Search Customers Migrating to FAST Data Search Expands FASTs Presence in the Online Recruitment Sector

OSLO, Norway and HANOVER, Maryland (PRWEB) October 2, 2003 -Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, today announced Allegis Group, one of the worlds largest staffing and recruitment firms, is deploying FAST Data Search to power the search capabilities on the next generation of Thingamajob.com (www.thingamajob.com), its online recruitment site.

In our plans to improve our online recruitment services, we saw many advantages to improving the enterprise search functionality by migrating from AltaVista to FAST Data Search," stated Ron Germack, Allegis Groups executive vice president of recruiting operations. In addition to offering us tremendous flexibility to work with multiple data sources, the advanced linguistics of FAST Data Search is enabling us to improve the overall search experience for both our recruiters and job seekers alike. We are confident in FASTs technology and expect a quick return on investment resulting from its increased hardware utilization."

The opportunity to migrate to FAST Data Search has created a tremendous response from the former AltaVista enterprise customers who joined FAST in June of this year. We are pleased Allegis Group has quickly identified the significant benefits provided to their business by deploying FASTs enterprise search solutions," commented John M. Lervik, FASTs chief executive officer. While improving the search efficiency of their recruitment sites, the deployment of FAST Data Search by Allegis Group further strengthens our presence in the online recruitment sector."

The FAST Data Search suite of enterprise search solutions offers the most comprehensive combination available of powerful real-time search technology, business search management tools, and information analysis capabilities. FAST Data Search, recent winner of the European IST award for innovative software products, enables companies and organizations to develop information transparency and utilization across organizational units and geographical areas. This results in improved efficiency through collaboration, information sharing, and real-time data monitoring and filtering, as well as a dramatic boost in ROI and lowered total cost-of-ownership. The FAST Data Search product suite supplies a complete information retrieval solution ideal for key vertical markets including Financial Services; Government; Media and Publishing; Life Sciences; and e-Commerce applications.

About Allegis Group
Allegis Group is a high performance organization providing contract services and business solutions to clients in the United States and internationally worldwide. We provide our clients with highly skilled technical and administrative professionals, from high-level consultants to supporting contract employees. Its operating companies include Onsite Companies (engineering, automotive, and scientific professionals for short- and long-term assignments), Mentor 4, Inc. (recruitment for accounting, human resources, and other customer support positions), and TEKsystems (IT staffing and consulting). Our field offices are located across the United States, in Canada, and Europe. The world's top Fortune 500 companies count on us to provide the people they need to continue their history of success. For further information on the Allegis Group, please visit www.allegisgroup.com.

About FAST
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at the worlds best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FASTs flexible and scalable integrated technology platform enables enterprise customers to elevate their search capabilities to unprecedented levels. FAST closes the gap between information and action, connecting people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium, in turn driving revenue and reducing total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure for our clients and world-class partners. A wide range of global customers and partners, including AT&T, Cardinal Health, CareerBuilder.com, Chordiant, CIGNA, Dell, FirstGov.gov (GSA), Freeserve, Goldman Sachs, IBM, LexisNexis, The National Library of Norway, Overture, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, SBC Communications, Tenet Healthcare, T-Online, University of Bielefeld (Germany), and Virgilio (Telecom Italia) currently use FASTs powerful enterprise search technology solutions.

FAST operates globally with presence in the United States (Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco), Europe (Norway, France, Germany, Italy, UK), and Japan. FAST is publicly traded under the ticker symbol 'FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Please visit www.fastsearch.com for more information.

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