IBM and Yahoo! have launched “IBM Omnifind Yahoo! Edition”:http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net/ — a free enterprise search product to compete with Google’s “Enterprise Search Appliance”:http://www.google.com/enterprise/.
Of course, with the Google Search Appliance you get the hardware included in the cost, so the IBM/Yahoo! product is only really free if you happen to have a beefy server lying around.
In addition before you start thinking all your enterprise search problems are over, it’s worth listening to Gerry McGovern on “why intranet search fails”:http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2006/nt-2006-12-04-intranet-search.htm. To quote:
bq. Time and time again, I hear staff plead: “Why can’t we just get Google?” But buying Google — or any other search engine for that matter — will not solve the problem.
Read the article to learn why. I get asked this question a lot, and so it’s great to have an article to send people to — which, more importantly, is _written by an expert_ (because apparently I’m not).
(via “Download Squad”:http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/12/13/ibm-and-yahoo-launch-free-enterprise-search-product/)
hey man that is really a very nice info about google
i am alwasy facinated about google
right from the start when i started using net i was amazed about how google works and as and when i came to knw my respect for them increased. and i dnt think any other programme can now compete google
Amitav, you’re right. Other programme can now compete google ;-).