By Staff Reporters, Dow Jones Venture Wire

AgentArts Inc,, a venture-backed provider of personalization and recommendation technology, has been acquired by Fast Search & Transfer ASA, a Norwegian provider of search technologies.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

**AgentArts** was founded in January 1999 in Melbourne, Australia, and joined the Women's Technology Cluster Incubator in San Francisco in 2000. In March 2000, the company received its initial round of financing, $1.25 million from Tinshed. In September 2001, the company received its second round of financing from Amtabity, Amphion Capital, Tinshed, and Aegis Partners. In 2003 the company received an undisclosed investment from Nokia Ventures.

**AgentArts** offers a range of recommendation, personalization, datamining and community recommendation products for music, video, games and mobile entertainment.

Based in Norway, Fast Search & Transfer provides enterprise search technologies to 2,600 global customers.

[Fast Search](http://www.fastsearch.com)
[Agent Arts, Inc.](http://www.agentarts.com)