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Google seeks partners for enterprise search products

22-Sep-2005

Tags: Enterprise Search, Marketplace at Large, Selecting Technology, Google Search Appliance

InfoWorld reports that Google is seeking partners to expand the reach of its enterprise search products through a program called "Google Enterprise Professional." The move makes sense; value-add resellers have long populated the enterprise search ecosystem, and as one integrator points out, Google has no professional services organization to compete with them. But wait! I thought the Google Appliance was supposed to be so simple that customers needn't perform hardly any customization. Just plop it in a rack, turn it on, and voilà: enterprise search. Well, as Steve Arnold points out, enterprise search projects remain complicated in any form, and after years of innovation, still require experienced information professionals to make them work.

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