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Enterprise Search: End of One Chapter, Start of Another

By Dick Weisinger

A few weeks back Microsoft paid $1.2 billion for the Norwegian company Fast Search and Transfer. The deal hasn’t gone through yet, but it would be the sixth largest purchase ever for Microsoft. It’s a deal that Microsoft is hoping

Enterprise Search: More SAP Money to Seed Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

In an earlier blog we talked about how SAP Ventures made a $9 million dollar seed investment in Alfresco. SAP Ventures is also funding enterprise search company Endeca to the tune of $5 million. Intel Capital also ponied up another

Enterprise Search: $1 Billion Dollar market

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner estimates that in 2008 Enterprise Search will bring in $989.7 million. It’s interesting that that amount is less than what Microsoft plans to pay for just one vendor in the Enterprise Search space. Microsoft’s offer to buy Norway’s Fast

Search Technology: Google Squables Over Vendor's Claims

By Dick Weisinger

Google has taken issue with claims about its Enterprise Search Appliance from Enterprise Search company Autonomy. Autonomy had published a whitepaper critiquing Google Enterprise search. The criticisms include: The Google Appliance fails to search all enterprise-critical data The Google Appliance

Enterprise Search: 'Free' Spills into the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet search war pitting Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft Live and a host of other wannabe free services has raged for years. Then free search spilled over onto the desktop with Google Desktop and Microsoft’s Windows Desktop Search. Now IBM