Fish4.co.uk Selects Fast Search Technology to Drive UK Expansion

Fast Search and Transferô (FASTô), the developer of search technologies today announced that Fish4.co.uk, the UKís largest classified website has implemented the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESPô) to drive precise and efficient search results across all areas of its business and to enable it to launch innovative new products and services. With three dedicated websites for Job, Home and Car search, Fish4 recognized the importance of the usersí experience and turned to FAST to provide the relevant search results necessary to maintain its industry leadership position and increase its market share across the online classified search industry.

FAST ESP will initially be used to create a new CV Matching Service for the UKís largest recruitment website, Fish4jobs (www.fish4jobs.co.uk), which will enable the matching of millions of job hunters and recruiters in a quicker, easier and more precise way. The service will automatically match job adverts against Fish4ís extensive CV database and will email the ten best-matching CVís to the recruitment advertiser within minutes.

ìWe plan to use FAST technology to power everything at Fish4,î said Richard Yeo, CTO of Fish4. ìWe are in the process of rapid expansion with plans to add over 200 employees and a range of exciting, new products within the next two years. FAST was the only provider that really understood our diverse search requirements and was fully committed to helping us achieve our goals. We needed a rich and highly-scalable enterprise search platform to help us create innovative new services that allow us to stay ahead of the competition, and FAST ESP provides this.î

Following the creation of the CV matching service, Fish4 will immediately utilize FAST ESP to rewrite the search infrastructure of its CV database. Fish4jobs currently stores over 220,000 CVís, but intends to capitalize on the flexibility and scalability of FAST ESP to set up a market-leading CV database that can handle millions more jobseekersí CVís, in time for the UKís busiest job-hunting period in post-holiday January.

Fish4jobs is currently the only recruitment website to offer a UK-wide search of job vacancies via a postcode classification system. Leveraging the power of FAST ESP, Fish4 plans to further differentiate its online recruitment offering by creating the first-ever 60-second CV, which will allow job hunters to advertise its immediate availability to recruiters who need to fill vacancies urgently.

ìFish4 was already a leader in the online recruitment market, but recognized the need for a faster, more scalable search solution to help expand its operations while continuing to provide an exceptional online user experience at the same time,î said John M. Lervik, CEO of FAST. ìFAST provides the highly configurable search platform that will support Fish4ís expansion initiatives and we look forward to helping them continue to innovate in their market.î

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