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Security Gaps in Search Engines

Theories and allegations are one thing – but it is functionality in practice that counts.
Suppose your documents have been indexed by Google Search Appliance. Make any search and note, e.g., the seventh search result. Then, change the access right for this document such that your user account has no read access anymore to this specific [...]

Enterprise Search, Security and Privacy

Enterprise versus Internet search
The assumption that similar approaches could be used in enterprise and internet searches “turns out to be surprisingly faulty” (Marc Strohlein: Executive Guide to Search, BusinessWeek, May 15 2006; see also Alan Cane: The future of search: It’s how, not where, you look, Financial Times, March 28 2007). The most import difference [...]