Fast and the Pharos project
It should also be noted that there is no need for a European inferiority complex in the search engine arena. Norwegian Fast Search & Transfer actually did develop a search engine delivering search results of a quality close or equal to Google’s called AlltheWeb.
Unfortunately Fast found it hard to make AlltheWeb commercially successful and sold AlltheWeb to Yahoo!
Yahoo! on its side decided to discontinue the AlltheWeb technology, opting for the inferior Inktomi search engine instead (probably because the company found it easier to handle an American based group of engineers and developers than one located at the other side of the globe)
