I always found this class of product fascinating, as new ones pop up all the time. I remember...
* Google Desktop
* Grepline / Cue (this is W10)
* ... various other products ...
I feel like for personal users, the product ultimately isn't sticky enough.
However, "enterprise search" feel more viable path especially this is where it becomes more valuable (and where the money is). Also anybody whose working at a large company would need to have some enterprise procurements to sign up for such a service anyway. I'm talking about players like Glean in this area.
Good point. It's interesting because, in many ways, search is easier at the enterprise level than the individual level. The usage patterns & social graphs of large orgs is incredibly helpful for relevance ranking. For example, if someone on your team just accessed a doc, the odds you are looking for that doc are pretty high.
Our thesis is that Google Desktop + Cue and the dozens of others lacked was good enough search to be sticky. We're not entirely certain this is the only reason, but we're testing it out.
* Google Desktop
* Grepline / Cue (this is W10)
* ... various other products ...
I feel like for personal users, the product ultimately isn't sticky enough.
However, "enterprise search" feel more viable path especially this is where it becomes more valuable (and where the money is). Also anybody whose working at a large company would need to have some enterprise procurements to sign up for such a service anyway. I'm talking about players like Glean in this area.