IBM作为it行业巨头，最近新闻频频见报，先是在多媒体搜索领域（IBM视频搜索）发力，现有在企业搜索软件领域与Google争锋。IBM says that its tools will make possible a further search approach, that of "discovery systems" that will extract the underlying meaning from stored material no matter how it is structured (databases, e-mail files, audio recordings, pictures or video files) or even what language it is in.（via Nytime）.
前一段时间我还在想本机搜索（Desktop search，本来应该按照字面意思翻译为桌面搜索）应该向本地域，工作组等企业内部网方向发展，现在IBM告诉我这个想法是对的。IBM hopes to create “the future of search". IBM has recently released OmniFind, its intranet search middleware (think desktop search times 10,000). OmniFind can, in under a second, search intranets, extranets, corporate public websites, relational database systems, file systems, and content repositories, analyzing HTTP/HTTPS, news groups (NNTP), file systems, Domino® databases, Microsoft® Exchange public folders, DB2 Content Manager, DB2 UDB, DB2 UDB for z/OS, Informix®, and Oracle databases. It can scale for millions of documents, thousands of users, can fit into any security setup, and works in Windows and Linux.（via blognewschannel）
从本质上讲它是个能理解你想要什么的搜索引擎，这是继Google web搜索之后在搜索领域的一场革命. 相关链接： info about omnifind of IBM IBM and search