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In 2008, Microsoft acquired Fast Search and Transfer, an enterprise search company that has decent search technologies [1]. It ran on common Linux and Unix syst
by hboon 3y ago
In 2008, Microsoft acquired Fast Search and Transfer, an enterprise search company that has decent search technologies [1]. It ran on common Linux and Unix systems as well as Windows at the point of the acquisition.
[1] I worked there
- AYBABTME 3y agoBlackBird is internally developed by GitHub engineers. I know the engineers who did the research and then wrote up the system.
- hboon 3y agoYeah, I thought so (that it was internally developed), because someone commented that it's not open sourced. I was just posting to say Microsoft have (had?) a perfectly nice search engine many years ago. Either GitHub folks didn't want to use it, it's not good (I think it was good, but maybe it's not suitable, or maybe it isn't maintained anymore shrug) or Microsoft butchered it too much over the years.
- ollien 3y agoI don't know much about the inner workings of Microsoft, but I could also imagine than an acquisition from that long ago just isn't known to those in the Github side of the house. Seems pretty typical for a large company.
- AYBABTME 3y agoBlackBird is a clean slate, code-specific search engine. Not a general purpose fulltext search engine.