What is the difference between typical web search and enterprise search systems?
While there are lot of similarities the way typical web search and enterprise search provide the end user experience, the difference primarily lies in crawling, ranking and most importantly securing the the searchable content from unauthorized access. Typical web search engines primarily index public content over the internet. Hence there are few or almost non-existent requirements for having content security in place. In contrast, enterprise applications typically have a robust security model guarding the underlying data. Most of the time data is secured by authentication and authorization techniques. For example, an enterprise mailing system will have authentication mechanism to verify the credentials of the user before publishing the email contents. The crawling process would fetch and index emails for all the users in the system. Subsequently, when someone attempts to search on email data, i) his/her credential needs to verified and ii) search results should be published only for t
