{"id":804,"date":"2009-03-20T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2009-03-20T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T15:00:18","slug":"enterprise-search-an-elusive-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/enterprise-search-an-elusive-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Search: An Elusive Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enterprise Search is still not there yet.\u00a0 A vendor-sponsored study by Recommind of satisfaction around companies and their use of existing Enterprise Search Solutions
\nreveals the short-comings of the current technology.\u00a0 The survey found that users are able to successfully search and find information only about 50 percent of the time.<\/p>\n

Search software is still vexed by a myriad of file formats and email stores.\u00a0 People expect searches to be smart enough to supplement search over internal information with information that’s also available on the public internet.\u00a0 Users want to be able to sift through all sources of data in a single search.\u00a0 People don’t want to be baffled by complex search forms, but on the flip-side, single-field enterprise search modeled on Google internet search, just don’t cut it — they have a difficult time of pin-pointing information and the context that the user is searching.<\/p>\n

Finding the happy medium between high search accuracy and ease-of-use has been an elusive goal.\u00a0 But with so many companies targeting enterprise search, it should only be a matter of time.\u00a0 But how much more?<\/p>\n

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Enterprise Search is still not there yet.\u00a0 A vendor-sponsored study by Recommind of satisfaction around companies and their use of existing Enterprise Search Solutions reveals the short-comings of the current technology.\u00a0 The survey found that users are able to successfully…<\/span><\/p>\n

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