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

Wow, I've never seen this used in any organization, what a simple solution
to the problem James, I didn't know Google offered this solution to
business.  The Google gadget for site specific searches works perfectly,
can't fault it, I imagine the business solution would be the same.

However, it's easy to guess the politics around not using it:

- security (an unfounded concern)

- we can do it "better" ourselves (never let a techie lose their job for
doing it badly).

C

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:14 PM, James Hunt <jameshunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> 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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