Google, K-Logs and Radio.  Last month, Google announced a Google appliance for corporations.  Nice.  However, there is something missing.  Google's attractiveness as a search engine is based on its ability to rank content based on a quality rating.  Google's quality rating is a combination of the number of sites linking to a specific webpage and the quality of the sites linking to it.  The results of this calculation gives Google the high hit rate on results it is known for.

Unfortunately, unlike the Internet, a corporate Intranet is a static monoculture. Most Intranets are designed and built by a small group of individuals.  It doesn't change much.  It's usually a semi-passive resource for employees.  It doesn't have a diversity of published views that link to resources that are located on it.  As a result, Google's quality ranking doesn't have the material it needs to do its magic in corporate environments.

There is a solution.  K-Logs.  K-Logs create a body of Intranet webpages that a Google appliance can use to rank resources.  This provides users with better results.

Google + Radio = better search results for corporate Intranets. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 

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