This year's Enterprise Search Summit was a well-attended and robust expression of just how vital and important search functions have become for enterprises of every scale. Maturing enterprise search solutions included offerings from Google that are putting pressure on many other search engine providers to provide more internal and external content sources in a simple package with more features that make answers easier to find. Any way you measure it enterprise search has reached a new level of maturity that places far more emphasis on performance and results than experimentation and partial solutions. Users are coming out winners in this gold rush, but a broader array of sophisticated content sources and content organization tools will keep those users clamoring for more precious gold than ever before.

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