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MS and Google stake out Enterprise Search
Posted by Rod in Google, Microsoft, TechBiz at 9:00 am on Friday, 14 July 2006

I’ve been waiting for this declaration….

Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise search

Enterprise search is far more complex and has much higher touch points than general searching in at  least three areas

  1. It needs to be security aware, therefore it needs to be integrated with the enterprise directory system
  2. It needs to support enterprise taxonomy. The enterprise needs additional classifications that can be applied (and used in search) beyond what can be inferred within the content.  For example, this email belongs to Project ABC, is INTERNAL, is related to TAX and HR.
  3. It has many complex source types, which live in different systems. Like documents, email, SharePoint sites. These might be Live, Backup up, on File Shares, on Local PC’s.

Google does not yet reach inside the business as much as Microsoft does.  This is Microsoft’s turf and one area where I see the barriers for Google being substantial.

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