Lervik argued that FASTshould get out of consumer search and focus on companies.

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To John Markus Lervik, a mobile phone is the Web's best surfboard, a device that can get you just the information you want, precisely when you want it.

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By June 1999 FAST had built a portal with a searchable index of 200 million documents--far more than the 80 million that Google could search at the time, Lervik says.

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Lervik's great quest is to give phones such smarts.

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But Lervik's company stumbled.

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