atw: Re: Should we give the users what they want? - aside


On 11 Mar 2009, at 11:08 AM, Caz.H wrote:
... from my experience, most organisations have painfully, infuriatingly, useless Intranet search functionality. I don't understand why this is so, but it is, so finding data or information quickly, if at all, is pretty hopeless unless you've bookmarked a URL.
I once contracted at an engineering company that was choking on its own electronic files. Thousands of files, and no organisation or planning. All the engineers seemed to be expert googlers, so I suggested that they install this: 

http://www.google.com.au/enterprise/mini/index.html
Management was quite taken by the idea, but I don't know if it came to anything. 

[No, I don't own shares in the company.]

James Hunt
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