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Google And IBM Team Up Search Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the only-good-can-come-of-this dept.

An Anonymous Reader wrote to mention a Reuters report on the teaming of IBM and Google over Google's Desktop search technology. From the article: "IBM is linking up its OmniFind corporate search system with Google's free desktop search for business to make it easier for users to locate information throughout an organisation that is often locked up in many separate systems ... Google wins IBM's endorsement among corporate technical managers for its desktop search product and IBM gives corporate information workers an already popular entry point into back-office databases through Google's search. Searchable data ranges from e-mail to computer files to blog postings to corporate repositories of data, images, audio or video, Prial said. Much of this is not available using public Web search tools. Typically, it is hard to reach inside a company except by trawling through many different programs."

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  1. Steady now! by cycletronic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Google really seems on top of this taking-over-Microsoft thing. Microsoft has openly decreed that they want the search space back, and Google answers by strengthening the front.