Corporate Data: A Comeback for Microsoft?
Another promising area of growth, enterprise search, is the searching of corporate intranets and file servers. Google's entrees into this area, Google Enterprise and the Google Search Appliance, would appear to pose no copyright problems and should not face cultural resistance, though they raise confidentiality issues. This area, however, highlights another obstacle to Google's growth: competition.
The competition is fierce in enterprise search, especially from Yahoo!'s OmniFind (in partnership with IBM) and Microsoft's Enterprise Search. Although as of this writing Microsoft holds only a pitiable third place in search (well under 9 percent, according to comScore.com), far behind Yahoo! (around 20 percent) ...
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