Difference between Intranet and Internet Search
Will Google or other Internet search engines (e.g. live.com or yahoo.com) work as good as in Intranet? The answer is NO. The reason is due to the fact that Intranet and Internet are widely different. The differences are explained below:
- Hyperlinks - Algorithms of Internet search engines, e.g. Google’s PageRank are specific to internet because the Internet has wider and more links (archor or <a href> tag) to being connected, so pages referenced by more links are more “relevant” or “popular” than those referenced by less links. However, intranet is lack of this kind of links structures generally.
- File Type - In the Internet, most of the pages are Html pages. Intranet has a lot of PDF, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files, SharePoint or other portal software’s pages and other corporate data files.
- Security - Internet search engines usually crawl the pages with public-access, but Intranet search engines have to dual with document permission.
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