I do not believe the article mentioned internet, but enterprise search is a big problem to solve. It is estimated that only about 20% of useful corporate data is stored in appropriate formats, i.e. databases. The rest is spread across thousands employee computers in form of word documents, text files, html files, PDFs, etc.
I have not heard of this norvegian company, but I have heard of startups tackling the problem of distributed search across "clowds" of enterprise PCs: each computer is running an agent and listens to a server for commands. A typical use case: a company is being sued over something, so a management may issue a command of searching for lawsuit-related keywords on ALL computers (laptops included) of all employees. The results can be collected, analyzed and even remotely deleted on all PCs.
I have not heard of this norvegian company, but I have heard of startups tackling the problem of distributed search across "clowds" of enterprise PCs: each computer is running an agent and listens to a server for commands. A typical use case: a company is being sued over something, so a management may issue a command of searching for lawsuit-related keywords on ALL computers (laptops included) of all employees. The results can be collected, analyzed and even remotely deleted on all PCs.