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Several technology start-ups are bringing Google-like search capabilities to companies so information-technology professionals can better search through their complex IT systems and growing mounds of data.

While consumers have long been able to use search engines like Google, Yahoo and Ask.com to find everything from obscure Web sites to travel deals on the Internet, there have been few similar tools for companies to search the increasing amounts of traffic generated by server computers and other devices and to look through their "unstructured" data, which includes video and pictures.