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Extending from my previous article on how you can get your company to get a better Enterprise Search Engine for free! Today I want to talk about how you can get the most out of what you have got now.

Even though the type of enterprise search engine available varies significant and the implementation can be quite different from company to company, the fundamental of how to use a search engine more effectively are pretty much the same, whether you have a portal based search engine on your intranet or a specialist search engine for documents, the following tips should make you a better searcher and increase your productivity!

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I am a fan and heavy user of Google Desktop Search but have always been curios about Windows Desktop Search and wanted to do a comparison between the two. Well, the guys at Download Squad have beaten me to it and done a good job in comparing the latest offerings from Microsoft and Google.

They looked at a number of factors that are important from a user’s point of view including:

• Indexing options available
• Automatic categorisation of documents
• General Ease of Use

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Have you ever been frustrated with your corporate portal search engine ? or worse still, been wondering why your company doesn’t offer any search engine for corporate information ? One of the excuses used by the IT department has always been cost, cost of software license being the main problem. Well, that excuse is no longer valid !

Whilst there are companies such as Autonomy which sells their enterprise search software for millions of dollars, there are plenty of FREE legitimate alternatives when it comes to enterprise search software now!

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