Google OneBox Hooks up With Enterprise Apps
TopShelf writes "Google's OneBox for Enterprise has now been integrated to multiple top-notch business applications, including Oracle, SAS, Cognos, and Salesforce.com, according to this morning's press release on Yahoo! News. PHB's everywhere will soon be able to Google their way to the information they need - what will that mean for corporate report developers and business intelligence staff?"
OneBox to search them all;
OneBox to find them;
OneBox to bring them all,
and under Google bind them.
The article failed to mention another important feature of the googlebox...it was in Beta for several years while Google ensured that its case was completely resistant to flying chairs.
With the google search appliance, you're supposed to point it at your company's intranet, then it starts indexing the pages it finds and gives you a web page (let's call this "google search appliance web page") from which you do your searches.
That's the way it's supposed to work. But if you want to, you can point the google search appliance at google.com, and have it index that.
Then you go to google.com and give it the address of the "google search appliance web page" so that google starting indexing *your* appliance.
And that is guaranteed to tear a whole in the fabric of spacetime, ending the universe as we know it.