In every single company I have worked for a constant blocker/source of pain/waste of time has been actually finding relevant info on whatever I’m supposed to do, when said info is internal to the company and not on the public internet. I would be willing to bet the amount of time and productivity lost because of this would be a significant chunk of the world’s GDP.
This is the kind of info that could be in any of confluence/sharepoint/the recesses of whatever (usually godawful) intranet, other wiki or wiki-like system or - shudders - some Slack thread from months ago only to be surfaced by an alien civilization surveying the crumbled ruins of our society (I joke, but only slightly - in my experience Slack’s search is utter shit). So in the end the only recourse is to know someone who can at least point you to the general direction of what you need and hope for the best.
I remember reading about the Google Search Appliance in the distant past, and always thought it was a killer concept: a Google search field - when Google actually found things - for an org’s internal documents and knowledge, without the risk of having the data leaving the company’s network. Afaik the thing actually crawled through everything accessible in the intranet and did its page rank sorting thing, just like when Google was good.
Yet the Appliance has long been discontinued and nothing else seems to have come to do the same thing.
Why?
This is the kind of info that could be in any of confluence/sharepoint/the recesses of whatever (usually godawful) intranet, other wiki or wiki-like system or - shudders - some Slack thread from months ago only to be surfaced by an alien civilization surveying the crumbled ruins of our society (I joke, but only slightly - in my experience Slack’s search is utter shit). So in the end the only recourse is to know someone who can at least point you to the general direction of what you need and hope for the best.
I remember reading about the Google Search Appliance in the distant past, and always thought it was a killer concept: a Google search field - when Google actually found things - for an org’s internal documents and knowledge, without the risk of having the data leaving the company’s network. Afaik the thing actually crawled through everything accessible in the intranet and did its page rank sorting thing, just like when Google was good.
Yet the Appliance has long been discontinued and nothing else seems to have come to do the same thing.
Why?
