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Analysis: Enterprise Search: Page 9 of 26

New search appliances claim to be uniquely adapted to meet enterprise needs. We tested eight enterprise search products and analyzed the technology's security and architectural implications. Our take: The
June 22, 2007

Another area of consideration is privacy, concerning two areas where content is stored: e-mail and users' desktops. As with all indexed content, ensure that proper authentication and privilege checking are in place when providing search capabilities to an e-mail database.

Users' desktops may also contain sensitive information, but a bigger issue is that to index a local desktop and let people other than the local user search the index, you'd have to create shares on every desktop--a potential security nightmare if your LAN gets hit with a virus that spreads through file shares. Desktops are better served with local indexing and search programs like Google Desktop, OmniFind Yahoo! Edition or X1 Enterprise Client.

In our reviews, we discuss how each product handles security, including whether it supports caching ACLs. n

SEARCH BY THE NUMBERS

40: Percentage of unit licenses for enterprise search sold that Google will provide by 4Q 2007. Source: Gartner

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