yowkee essential

If your company has tons of essential/vital documents stored in the intranet servers, distributed in the various intranet services, wouldn’t you wish to have “local google” site for you googling it? Google’s answer to this particular market demand is its new product Google Mini. As the product name revealed, it’s a shrink down version of Google’s technology. It’d index all your files, providing similar interface as the Google search engine, capibility to view your Word, PDF files as HTML file on browser.…etc.

It’s targetting to small and medium size companies. But I thought only BigCo needed more for such search engine to plug into their existing intranet services (all the huge and sloopy web services recommended by consultants..). Is Google aim at the correct market?

It could be seen as Google’s steps on trying to keep its competency on what it excel — technology. Despites of various web services released over the years (and the buying over products to merge into its web services), trying out different channels with its core technology would be a good go.