Monday, June 28, 2004
Yahoo! News - Will the Search Wars Help You?: "Will the Search Wars Help You?
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Microsoft says that within a year it will offer software for searching e-mail messages, hard drives and corporate networks. The announcement is sure to inspire a competitive response from Google, which recently upgraded its pizza-box-shaped Google Search Appliance to index up to 15 million documents and perform 300 queries per minute.
Will search offerings from these behemoths encroach on the territory of smaller enterprise search vendors, namely Autonomy, ClearForest, Convera, Fast Search & Transfer and Verity? These companies provide full-featured search products with automatic tagging, categorization and support for many file formats.
'People see Google and think that's what they need for their Web site and intranet, but is that really the case?' asks IDC analyst Sue Feldman. 'On the Web, you have homogenous HTML. On an intranet, you have all kinds of files.' Although Microsoft and Google could purchase file format conversion software, for reliable search across a large organization, an enterprise search engine is still best because of its fuller feature set, whereas the Google and Microsoft alternatives are/will be fine for simple keyword searches.
Bottom line: Increased competition is making all these vendors try harder, which is good for you."
Sat Jun 26, 5:00 AM ETAdd Technology - TechWeb to My Yahoo!
Microsoft says that within a year it will offer software for searching e-mail messages, hard drives and corporate networks. The announcement is sure to inspire a competitive response from Google, which recently upgraded its pizza-box-shaped Google Search Appliance to index up to 15 million documents and perform 300 queries per minute.
Will search offerings from these behemoths encroach on the territory of smaller enterprise search vendors, namely Autonomy, ClearForest, Convera, Fast Search & Transfer and Verity? These companies provide full-featured search products with automatic tagging, categorization and support for many file formats.
'People see Google and think that's what they need for their Web site and intranet, but is that really the case?' asks IDC analyst Sue Feldman. 'On the Web, you have homogenous HTML. On an intranet, you have all kinds of files.' Although Microsoft and Google could purchase file format conversion software, for reliable search across a large organization, an enterprise search engine is still best because of its fuller feature set, whereas the Google and Microsoft alternatives are/will be fine for simple keyword searches.
Bottom line: Increased competition is making all these vendors try harder, which is good for you."
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