Comments on: Waiting for the Best Search Ever http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/03/12/waiting-for-the-best-search-ever/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: People Over Process » Is Enterprise Search an Application or a Feature? http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/03/12/waiting-for-the-best-search-ever/#comment-162879 People Over Process » Is Enterprise Search an Application or a Feature? Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:38:23 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/03/12/waiting-for-the-best-search-ever/#comment-162879 [...] than simply searching over intranet pages, though, I haven’t heard too many stories of enterprise search being used as an application [...] [...] than simply searching over intranet pages, though, I haven’t heard too many stories of enterprise search being used as an application [...]

]]> By: Dan Davies Brackett http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/03/12/waiting-for-the-best-search-ever/#comment-15805 Dan Davies Brackett Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:29:32 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/03/12/waiting-for-the-best-search-ever/#comment-15805 I've come close to being frustrated enough with my own inability to find useful documentation on my company's intranet to deploying my *own* Simple Search -- letting Google Desktop run rampant overnight(s) on the company servers. Perhaps that's the right way to solve the problem -- use the standard IT-management techniques to push Google Desktop or its moral equivalent onto every machine, and let people index only what they already have access to... I’ve come close to being frustrated enough with my own inability to find useful documentation on my company’s intranet to deploying my *own* Simple Search — letting Google Desktop run rampant overnight(s) on the company servers.

Perhaps that’s the right way to solve the problem — use the standard IT-management techniques to push Google Desktop or its moral equivalent onto every machine, and let people index only what they already have access to…

]]> By: Ric http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/03/12/waiting-for-the-best-search-ever/#comment-15236 Ric Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:01:09 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/03/12/waiting-for-the-best-search-ever/#comment-15236 I've been playing with Omnifind over our Intranet, and while it will tell me a document exists, if it is secured and I don't have access to it, I can't open it. This seems to satisfy the required security model in a 'simple' search facility. Longer term I'm with you - perhaps we should just start trusting people more, rather than make it difficult to do their jobs ... I’ve been playing with Omnifind over our Intranet, and while it will tell me a document exists, if it is secured and I don’t have access to it, I can’t open it. This seems to satisfy the required security model in a ’simple’ search facility. Longer term I’m with you - perhaps we should just start trusting people more, rather than make it difficult to do their jobs …

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