ENTERPRISE SEARCH
Enterprise search may be interpreted as search of textual materials owned by an organization, including search of their external Website, company‟s intranet, and any other textual document that they hold such as email, database records and shared documents by the use of information retrieval tools. This information may be structured or unstructured. Documents are produced by a variety of sources, perhaps in many different languages, and generally without formatting standards. Because of these complexity of the typical enterprise information spaces, only a few of the search engines available on the market are able to work with the wide range of databases, email formats, document formats, typical of medium scale enterprises.Most enterprise search also includes other searches done by the employees of that enterprise. Employees usually have access to a “desktop search” facility. Dumais report an extension of this type to include search of all the documents previously viewed by the user. In general, we can include all the searches done by employees under this label i.e. “workplace search”. This label covers not only search of enterprise information, information held on the desktop, and information previously viewed, but also search of information held external to the organization, such as the WWW. Illustrates the diversity of sources accessed by employees