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Google appliance now searching by the billion

by Tom Krazit
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Google's latest internal corporate search tool, the Google Search Appliance 6.0.

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Google sells hardware, too, and announced Tuesday that its Google Search Appliance can now find documents by the billions.

Google Search Appliance 6.0 (GSA) is the company's product for helping enterprises locate and manage the reams of internal corporate data that doesn't get indexed by Google's search bots, but which needs to be found by managers and employees. The latest version is all about scaling, or the ability to link dozens of these appliances to allow even the biggest companies to search their networks for presentations, spreadsheets, and other documents.

There are two hardware models that are capable of searching different numbers of documents: the high-end GB-9009 can search 30 million documents by itself and reach into the billions if a company links several appliances together. The appliances are built on the Dell's PowerEdge R710 design.

Google charges businesses a licensing fee for several years of internal document searching, based on the number of documents inside their organization.

Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom.
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by lonestarState June 2, 2009 11:12 AM PDT
It would be cool if Yahoo or BuildaSearch or Bing made a similar cool looking search appliance. I would buy the $30,000 dollar server just for the looks, but only if I can color it and brand it like I do my BuildaSearch search engine.
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by jessiethe3rd June 2, 2009 11:04 PM PDT
SharePoint Server and FAST search by microsoft far surpass Goggle's appliance. Who needs an expensive Google Search appliance when you can get a cheap server and Office SharePoint Server?
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by idfubar June 9, 2009 12:01 AM PDT
Are you sure you're not talking about two different use cases?
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