Enterprise Searching To Surpass Web Searching?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Enterprise search - or search within businesses - is a decade behind web search in terms of usage. Interesting questions are why? and whither? - what’s the trend?
There is roughly one web search per person per day in the U.S., counting the web searches at Google, Yahoo, Live, etc., but excluding searches at eBay, YouTube, CMU.edu, WashPost.com, USA.gov and the like. The analogue in business is searches done on the general intranet search, not at point solutions like Outlook search, desktop search, single-repository search, and so on. Our experience is that daily, general intranet searches lag web searches by orders of magnitude.
