Washingtonpost.com, a long-standing citysearch partner, has long purchased citysearch software to power their city guide and, in fact, a Citysearch search with geography “Washington DC” still redirects users to the washington post site.

Well, it looks like the washingtonpost has selected FAST to power their local search/city guide (yes, they are tied…the city guide portion provides the list and editorial content while the local search provides the ability to search geospatially, etc). FAST has been getting a lot of business with their geospatial feature they added a while back. It will also be interesting to see how Citysearch responds and if they choose to stay with their engine or with FAST as well.

The fact that their are rumors that Yahoo! is interested in acquiring FAST could complicate matters (as Yahoo! is a competitor to many of these local search sites, search sites, and CPC engines).

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