The Rambler Media group of companies has officially announced the conclusion of a contract with the Norwegian developer of search solutions
Fast Search & Transfer . In particular, as previously
reported , the parties signed an agreement on licensing the search platform FAST ESP ™ 360. In addition, the company purchased the rights to the software product for searching on the user's computer.
The acquired acquisitions will enable the Russian Internet holding to develop multimedia search technologies. It is reported that by order of Rambler Media, the Norwegians will also develop a Russian Speech-to-Text module that recognizes Russian speech.
Denis Kalinin, the general director of the holding, stressed in the official commentary on the transaction that it was not planned to replace the main search engine, and the licensed technology would be used to search in the portal’s vertical and multimedia services.