Searching for the desktop

October 6, 2005 —

With the advent of powerful search engines that can return insightful results culled from millions of sites all over the Internet in a matter of seconds, the difficulty of finding similar documents in an enterprise became starkly apparent. "The time information workers spend searching but not finding what they seek costs even a modestly sized enterprise of 1,000 knowledge workers $6 million per year in unproductive time, and even more as those workers recreate the information that exists but cannot be found," says Susan Feldman, research vice president at IDC.

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