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Where this one gets misread
Enterprise search carries identity and permission requirements that public web search never has, and that is where implementations usually fail. Relevance, the part the demo shows, is rarely the problem.
Glossary
What is enterprise search?
Enterprise search is search across an organisation's approved sources, and it carries identity and permission requirements that public web search never has.
Updated 21 Aug 2026
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Questions to ask
Ask for a worked example on your own material, and the evidence needed to reproduce it.
- How are permissions enforced at query time?
- What happens when someone's access changes?
- Which sources are actually indexed, as opposed to planned?
- How fresh is the index, and what triggers an update?
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How Marella uses the term
We use “Enterprise search” only where a product mechanism or an evaluation method backs it up, and we say when the behaviour depends on how a deployment is configured.
- Backed by a product mechanism or an evaluation method
- Deployment differences flagged
What this page does not prove
- B1A definition is not a claim about how the product performs.
- B2Vendor implementations vary.
- B3Test the term against a representative workflow.
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