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The Peril of Corporate Search
You've undoubtedly been hearing about the darlings of Wall Street: Google and Yahoo. Their stocks just seem to keep rising despite a price-to-earnings ratio that is in the 80s--compared to a stock market average that is in the teens. The speculation is that these two companies will be BIG--really BIG--just like Microsoft, Cisco and Intel. So what is driving this speculation? It can't simply be based on their Internet searches and ad revenue. The answer is in solving the dilemma of corporate search.
Corporate search, for those of you who have tried your corporate search engine recently, is more likely than not a frustrating adventure. If your corporate search engine works anything like ours, the simplest searches can yield the most inane results. I recently tried to search for our Human Resources home page and got the link for the Human Resources homepage in Thailand with the one in the United States nowhere to be found!
The problems that traditional search engines face in tackling the corporate Intranet space are many. One problem is incentive. In the Internet space, people "want" to have people come to their website; thus, they create pulls to do so. These pulls include heavy tagging of websites, submissions to common search engines and Web page descriptors that can be identified through Internet searches. By utilizing these methods, search …
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