On Trondheim and search engines.

I was shocked to read an article in the press today that wasn't full of the usual nonsense about where I work and the people I've worked with the past 17 years. At some point I should probably continue the "Ancient history" series of blog postings:

• Ancient history, Part 1: early years.
• Ancient history, Part 2: using open source.
• Ancient history, Part 3: more on the origins of FAST Search

Note that these were written from my point of view and a Trondheim point of view. During the time I wrote those, and shortly after, I talked to a lot of people who had comments and wanted to share their perspective.

Of course, the blogs talk about things that happened many years ago and the postings were written in an attempt to clear up some misconceptions about the origins of FAST. A lot of us went on to Yahoo! and then Google. But those are stories to be told another time :)