I've spent the last two days in GSA, Google Search Application, training. While many may snicker about the name I think that this is important learn. While we do rely on Google.com for searching just about any and all content, Google.com can only search public data. Things behind a firewall or on a company intranet are not going to show up. I am sure many of us use the "company" search and find it more than lacking.
I work for a rather small company of around 90,000 employees. We have solutions in place for our company that work well for large companies. Unfortunately the company I work for breaks most solutions through just sheer volume. We are not large, we are freaking huge.
I am learning about the GSA to implement for customers. It would be nice to use this internally. The cobbler's children are the only ones with broken shoes, fits where I work.
A company can buy a GSA and throw it behind their firewall and let it run. The basic configuration is to set boundaries for the machine then let run to its heart is content. There is a lot more to worry about, but that is what happens at a high level. You get the same algorithm that is on the Google.com site and the GSA returns searches in under a second. It is set to never take longer than 3 seconds, other wise it just ignores the data that is taking too long.
It is nice that it uses such a trusted algorithm, now you will not get any porn from your co-workers in your intranet search . . . damn. The licensing is not cheap but for medium to large companies this is a very good solution. Google excels in unstructured collaboration and the GSA helps makes sense of vast amounts unorganized information.
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