Enterprise search, the next big battleground?
InternetNews | at | by Mike
To hear Google tell it, the person doing a search on a home PC is "the same guy" who uses search in the enterprise. Microsoft says that may be true, but that doesn't mean they have the same needs.
In a panel discussion here at the Gilbane content management conference, officials from Google and Microsoft had a cordial debate over how the two companies address the enterprise search market. Jared Spatraro, group product manager for enterprise search at Microsoft, said there were three main areas of search: commodity, high end specialized services and mid-market "true enterprise" services. He said Microsoft plays in and continues to invest in all three areas.