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Google upgrades enterprise search products

SMBs get a more powerful Google Mini, larger firms get an upgraded Search Appliance

April 19, 2006 12:00 PM ET

IDG News Service - Google Inc. is revamping its enterprise search devices and today will announce a new version of its Google Mini for small and medium-size businesses and an upgrade to its Search Appliance for larger organizations.

The Search Appliance upgrade includes a feature called OneBox, which lets the engine identify the overall intent of certain queries and compile and present certain data at the top of the search results list that may satisfy the user's information needs.

OneBox, which already exists on the Google.com search engine, is meant to save users from having to click on search results by presenting them with a digest of data.

For example, the Google.com search engine returns at the top of search results a box with current weather data for Dallas if a user enters that city's name along with the term "weather." It has others for stock information, package tracking and airline flight times.

Now, the Search Appliance will be able to replicate this feature for workplace information, such as human resources data, sales transaction details and employee contact and calendar information.

To activate the Search Appliance's OneBox functionality, users need to download free modules built for this purpose. There will be about 20 ready today that will allow the Search Appliance to create OneBox digests of data gathered from applications from Cisco Systems Inc., Cognos Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, SAS and Salesforce.com Inc., among others. Google is also publishing an open application programming interface to let any developer create OneBox modules for the Search Appliance.

Other enhancements to the Search Appliance include improved security and authentication capabilities and the ability to deliver more relevant results. The device's performance has also been improved through software; it now offers a 500% increase in queries per second and a 100% increase in its index size.

The Search Appliance upgrade will be made available to existing customers before the end of the month via a free software download at http://code.google.com/enterprise. On this Web page, users will also find information about the OneBox modules, as well as resources for developers, including software development kits and documentation.

Google also plans to begin shipping a new version of the Google Mini that is half the size and weight of the current one but able to process 25 queries per second, up from 1 query per second. This next-generation Google Mini will cost the same as current versions of the product.

The Search Appliance and Google Mini are hardware devices loaded with search engine software designed to let companies index and retrieve information stored on corporate servers.

The Google Mini starts at $1,995 with a capacity to index as many as 50,000 documents, while the Search Appliance starts at $30,000 with a 500,000-document capacity.


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