Google may be plowing most of its resources into a scrum with Microsoft and Yahoo! over the hearts and wallets of Internet users and advertisers across the globe. But a small team inside Google for two years has been zeroing in on an entirely different audience: corporate IT departments.

Now, Google's oft-overlooked business group is starting to make some waves. Seeking to expand upon its small business of selling search appliances for corporate intranets, Google in April announced partnerships with a handful of business-software makers.

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