Recently we have been working a lot on k-logs, or knowledge (web) logs, or anyway on the concept of using weblogs as a company internal communication tool. We use k-logs ourselves at evectors and so far everything works perfectly but, of course, I miss google on my intranet.

No problem, as you probably know, if you are based in the US you can get it in the form of the Google Search Appliance (there also are ASP based services offered by google).

The reason I would like google on my Intranet, is becuse the whole weblogs architecture works perfectly with google (just check your weblog's referer traffic). The real value of google is in their page ranking system, which is based on the fact that users are linking pages from their pages. Now: in a regular intranet site, let alone on file server, there are usually very few or no links. So, on a regular intranet, the Google Search Appliance would be just yet another search engine. But with internal weblogs, everything would start to make sense again.

And I have not even told you what we are up to with centralized rss aggregators and dynamic file servers!

Anyway, to my enquires google replied saying that they are not distributing it in Europe yet, so I guess I will have to wait some more...