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Google A Challenger In Search Enterprise Market 
By: Doug Caverly 2006-07-19 Google is offering Microsoft some heavy competition in the search enterprise market. That's what an iTWire poll indicated, anyway - 88 percent of respondents said that yes, Google is "a serious threat" in this area. Apparently they didn't listen to Microsoft's Kevin Turner when he claimed, "We're not going to let Google win in the enterprise space."
Yes, about a week ago, Turner said a few things that could be viewed as somewhat less than professional. The iTWire story probably isn't going to help his blood pressure. If it'll make Turner feel any better, the people who didn't feel Google posed a serious threat all believed that it wasn't - he didn't lose any votes to an "I don't know" section, in other words. But that won't soften the content of the article. Stan Beer built up Microsoft's challenger, writing that "a product recently launched by Google called OneBox" could, "together with an integrated hardware unit called the Google Search Appliance," "crawl through and dig out corporate data at super fast speeds." "As a result," Beer continued, "analysts believe the experience that users are getting typing natural language queries into the Google search box on the web will translate to natural language searching for corporate records, rather than users drilling down through applications and directories to find records. The time savings are potentially enormous . . . ." Beer had less to say about Microsoft, which "is working to implement similar technology in the enterprise." The poll results would seem to indicate a similar partiality among the public. Add to | DiggThis | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Google About the Author: Doug is a staff writer for SearchNewz, WebProNews, InternetFinancialNews, and SecurityProNews. |
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