Microsoft just announced today that the greatest search cluster office outside USA will be localized to Sintef (text in Norwegian). The main points in the article:

1. Background for the establishment is that Microsoft bought the Norwegian Search engine Fast some time ago. Fast's groundbreaking search technology was developed at Gløshaugen ved NTNU and this technology milieu was the main factor that Google and Yahoo established offices in Trondheim.
2. Global senter. Microsoft will now make Norway to its global senter for search engine technology and company search.
3. Search cluster. In the short run Microsoft will employ about 50 researchers and developers to development milieus in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø. This adds to the 300 scientists already employed by FAST Search & Transfer in Norway.
4. Company search still important but internet search will be more important in the future according to the Tv news today.

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