Originally published November 29 2005
IBM teams up with Google to ease searching for businesses
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
IBM's OmniFind corporate search system and Google's free desktop search for business will collaborate to help businesses build their own in-house search system tailored to a specific industry.
IBM is linking up its OmniFind corporate search system with Google's free desktop search for business to make it easier for users to locate information throughout an organization that is often locked up in many separate systems.
Google wins IBM's endorsement among corporate technical managers for its desktop search product and IBM gives corporate information workers an already popular entry point into back-office databases through Google's search.
No money is changing hands in this loose partnership by the world's biggest computer company and the leader in Web search.
Prial downplayed any grand strategy in IBM's dealings with Google, but said it was part of a broader push IBM calls "information as a service," which the computer company plans to make more explicit over the coming months.
Users of IBM's WebSphere integration software would have access to information stored inside rival business databases and content management systems, not just those from IBM.
"There's a lot of raw data inside an organization -- as much as 80 percent is unstructured and something has to happen to make it into information," Forrester analyst Barry Murphy said of data forgotten on employee hard disks or other places.
IBM customers can use the Google-IBM search combination by buying IBM products and services and building their own in-house system or rely on IBM to create a pre-packaged system, tailored to the company's industry, the company said.
Its first custom-built system, called IBM Crime Information Warehouse, aims to give government and police agencies fast access to crime statistics, incident and arrest reports in a single view that can help discern crime patterns, IBM said.
Google's strategy is rather to use its popularity with consumers at home to slip into offices by relying on the actions of millions of employees to each download its tools.
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