
Posted on Saturday, October 29 2005 @ 23:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
IBM and Google are collaborating to make it easier for office workers to search for local documents and personal e-mail as well as to delve deep into corporate databases.
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.
"Getting these two products together makes sense for both of us," David Girouard, general manager of Google's enterprise business unit. "If you want to have a good corporate search product, you have to have desktop search," he said.
More info over at
Reuters.