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Navtej Kohli has a news to tell. Paglo Launches Its Search Engine for IT!


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When we discuss improvements to search technology, we tend to focus on
the open web while overlooking its more novel uses behind the firewall.
So it's good to point out advancements being made behind the scenes
from time to time, even if consumers don't directly benefit.


Paglo is a Palo Alto-based startup is launching a product into public
beta that empowers IT professionals with keyword search. Its crawler
doesn't index documents, images, and other forms of media found on the
internet. Rather, it identifies the resources within a corporate or
organizational network (such as devices, users, and software) and
essentially makes the information available about them Google-able.


Since Paglo is a hosted solution, IT departments need only to install
an open source crawler that will send indexed data to Paglo's servers,
where they are held in a designated silo. We're told the process of
setting up Paglo for a given department takes only minutes, after which
IT admins can sign in from anywhere to search their networks.


In addition to simple keyword search, users can set up Google
Alert-like notifications for when certain changes occur within a
network (for example, when memory gets low on a particular machine).
Search queries can be saved as tables, graphs or lists and displayed
alongside each other on a dashboard for quick viewing. These queries
can also be shared through a built-in community with other IT admins
who might be interested in seeing how you keep tabs on your resources.


Paglo signed up 800 companies during its private beta period, which
started last Fall. The service will remain completely free through at
least the summer, after which it will be sold on a subscription basis.