Google is 800 trillion times faster than Microsoft
- Fred: Could you tell me where on the LAN the docs for Project X are?
- Shiela: Oh, they’re not on the LAN, I found them on the Internet.
- Fred: Much better – I’ll Google for them.
There is something very wrong when I can do a free text search over 20 billion pages stored on 80 million geographically distributed servers in “0.60 seconds”, but trying to find the same text in a few thousand docs stored on 1 Windows server takes 20 minutes and then gets the wrong answer.
Yeah – apples and oranges, and the title is flamebait, but there is something wrong when I’ve got more chance of finding a doc somewhere on the Internet than on the file server in the room next door.
What good, simple solutions are there to the local search problem in the corporate environment?
P.S. If you are thinking of suggesting Google Desktop as a corporate search solution then you deserve a turbo wedgie for not considering what it will do to the network and servers when all those clients want to update their indexes.