Expanding on the brief information in Information on FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint , this post is on what the components of FAST search system are and what function they perform. This should help you understand the FAST search system better....

February seems to be the favored month for Search roadmap updates in Microsoft. On Feb 10, 2009 the Microsoft Unveils New Enterprise Search Road Map press release disclosed a detailed road map from Microsoft for its enterprise search products, including...

In the FAST search system, an item processing service performs required processing on content retrieved to prepare it for indexing. Examples of item processing are mapping of crawled properties to managed properties, parsing of document formats, linguistic...