Google: It’s Not Only the Ads
Here is some news about the most recent step in Google’s bid to diversify its business model. Apart from the casual snubs in the article, CMS Watch also provides the following excerpt from their in-depth report:
Even Google’s marketing won’t go so far as to call their implementation “enterprise-class security,” instead favoring to highlight single sign-on (which the Appliance supports quite well). Document-level security is handled late-binding - the result sets are filtered for hits a searcher is allowed to see, which requires the system to fire off separate requests for each hit to see if it may be displayed. This has only one advantage - the authorization will be up-to-date to the second - but, certainly in Google’s implementation, several drawbacks.
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