Paglo.com - IT's Newest Best Friend: A Search Engine

How do you solve a tech problem at the office? Call the IT guy. Or may be not. With Paglo you can search for and find the solution to innumerable technical problems, giving your tech guy a much needed break. Paglo is an on-demand search tool which is freely available for anyone to use. For internal search purposes, Paglo has also created a downloadable, open source crawler which can run on your network from any desktop computer. It crawls your network gathering information which is then uploaded to your private Paglo Search Index. Only authorized individuals can use your Paglo account. For daily updates, there’s a dashboard which is refreshed automatically as it receives new data. Dashboards can be tailored to meet your specific needs—start by running a query and transform the results into a graph or chart then embed it on your dashboard. Alternately, use Paglo’s premade templates. Registration is free.

“You have more devices, applications, and users to manage — probably a bigger IT headache than you had only a year ago. And solving computer, network, and user problems is a challenge (especially when it's not just the sleepyhead at the keyboard who forgot to turn the computer on before calling you to ask why the machine is dead). Our goal is to make it easy. We want Paglo to be your IT wingman, and your go-to source for knowledge.”

Paglo is giving the non-technically minded a means to fix things and gather tech related information on their own. They claim to be Google for IT and so far, they’re doing a rather good imitation. Not only does it offer valuable search functionality, it also can be used to diagnose your network, for free.

Will this be adopted by regular users? How easy is this for non-techies to use? Will users still need to consult the IT department, or are results stand alone, simple enough for everyone to understand?