Since SharePoint 2010 is out of mainstream support (ended July 2015, extended support ended July 2020), migration to a newer version is strongly recommended:
Migration paths:
Developers in 2010 had a confusing array of options—some progressive, others dead ends in hindsight. microsoft sharepoint server 2010
| Feature | Standard Search | FAST Search | | --- | --- | --- | | Index item capacity | 20 million | 50 million+ | | Entity extraction | Basic (people, dates) | Advanced (custom regex, linguistic rules) | | Phonetic & wildcard search | No | Yes | | Visual preview (PDF/Office) | No | Yes | | Relevance tuning (boost by metadata) | Limited | Fine-grained, click-through learning | | Recommendations (People who viewed X also viewed Y) | No | Yes | Since SharePoint 2010 is out of mainstream support
FAST brought SharePoint search into competition with Google Search Appliance (now discontinued) and Autonomy. However, its complexity and licensing cost meant most mid-market orgs stuck with Standard search. extended support ended July 2020)
New-SPWebApplication -Name "Portal" -Port 80 -ApplicationPool "SharePointAppPool"