FAST Increases Relevance, Begins Indexing Word Docs

Search engine FAST, otherwise known as AlltheWeb ( http://www.alltheweb.com ) has announced an increased relevance to its search results. Their announcement includes the quote, "FAST has added the use of the proximity of search terms within a document to its ranking algorithm adding to the existing advanced international linguistic and phrasing capabilities." I've always found the relevance at AlltheWeb pretty good and don't see much difference -- maybe my search queries aren't esoteric enough?

In other news, FAST also announced that it's indexing Microsoft Word documents. You can access this search option from the advanced search page. MS-Word documents will be marked by a little MS-Word caption next to the title. Note that the Word docs do not appear to have a HTML-version, like they do on Google.

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