In the article “Best and worst of times for enterprise search” the author, Paul Korzeniowski, mentions some vendors of enterprise search / eDiscovery solutions.
The list of vendors is missing some very important players though, like Autonomy, Attivio en Microsoft / FAST.
I would advise the author to be more thorough the next timeBut Google keeps pushing: Its still-in-beta Google Wave promises to attack one of Microsoft's most beloved products, its SharePoint collaboration software.
First of all, the question, "Is Google Wave a SharePoint Killer" is a completely artificial, nonsense argument dreamed up by either the Google PR team and/or the media to generate buzz. Wave is an email client (very tempted to say "consumer email client")... an exciting and innovative one, but it's not a collaboration platform... at least if your definition of collaboration is more sophisticated than sharing pictures from a boating trip. Wave doesn't compete with SharePoint, it competes with Outlook.
That being said, it has occurred to me recently that one of the weaknesses of SharePoint is its failure to account for the fact that email is and will continue to be the fundamental central connective tissue to all collaborative activies. As you might imagine, Bamboo has one of the most sophisticated, tricked-out SharePoint portals in the world, and yet even here, people continue to exchange documents in email and communicate issues in email that *should* be written into a wiki or discussion board. Why? Convenience. So long as it is more convenient to fire off an email than to upload a document or navigate to a message board, that is what people will do. Wave does address this problem head on, and I think introduces a new paradigm that Outlook will have to adopt, quickly.
But an enterprise collaboration platform? Hardly. There is no sign of document management, content management, workflow, data integration, dashboarding etc. etc. If Google truly believes that Wave is a platform for enterprise collaboration, it only serves as proof that they really don't understand the business. Maybe if they fully integrated Wave, Google Sites, Google Apps, Google Gears, Google Calendar in a comprehensive platform... then you might have something. But Microsoft has a big head start in lashing together all of these disparate capabilities and a huge installed base of customers to drive innovation based on real world feedback.
Bing (www.bing.com) and Yahoo (www.yahoo.com through an API key) do. Aside to the subject of this blog, I find this monopolistic behaviour of Google repulsive... They index al OUR content and resources, make money of it through advertising, and then they stop the "open source" character of their activities. Once our content enters their databases, the content is theirs!
Start using Bing more often!
require_once('phpQuery/phpQuery.php');
//The URL of the webpage to fetch
//$link = "http://www.emidconsult.com";
$link = "http://www.google.nl/search?q=multiple+sclerose";
//Get the whole HTML contents
$page = file_get_contents($link);
//Put the HTML content in a phpQuery object
phpQuery::newDocumentHTML($page, $charset = 'utf-8');
//Get the [body] contents out of the phpQuery object
//$body = pq('body');
//print $body;
//iterate through every link (a element) in the webpage.
foreach(pq('a') as $ref) {
//Get the link
$href = pq($ref)->attr('href');
//Show the url in the a element, but only if it contains external links
$pos1 = strpos($href, 'http://');
//and has no reference to Google own search commands
$pos2 = strpos($href, '/search?q');
if (($pos1 === false) || ($pos2 > 0)) {
//DO NOTHING
} else {
echo $href."\n";
//Now do some things with the href...
}
}
?>
Third, there is a reminder to me that SharePoint is a work in progress. I think someone told me that it is the next operating system from Microsoft. The Fast component will be called Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Now the story gets interesting. Here’s what’s coming:He then sums up some aspects of the features:
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