maandag 3 augustus 2009

Fuzz about Google search options

The past few weeks I see so much news and blog articles about the "Search options" that Google has rolled out on their image search application. They added this feature a couple of months ago for there regular websearch to.
They are following the example of Bing who has had this from the start.

I don't see the big news here because "search options" are a standard feature of any enterprise search solution (Autonomy, Solr, Exalead). If you don't have faceted / parametric search the the search solution is useless.

The fact that so many websites see this feature as news has opened my eyes to the fact that so few people are used to real and usable search solutions at work. This strikes me as odd, because how are they able to find the info within their organisation then?

No wonder that the enterprise search / information access market has an estimate share of billions of dollars.

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