Google boosts Search Appliance capacity
Published: 06 Aug 2008 09:15 BST
Google has expanded the capacity of its Search Appliance and made other improvements to the customised server that lets users search their companies' documents.
The earlier incarnation of the device could index as many as three million documents, but the newer model can handle 10 million, said Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for enterprise at Google. Other changes include the ability to present search results based on descriptive metadata associated with documents and enabling administrators to customise search results for different categories of employees, he said.
Google makes the vast majority of its revenue and profit by selling text ads that appear on its publicly available web-search site, but the search server is one of a handful of other areas where the company is actively trying to make money.
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The price, which covers support and hardware problems for two years, starts at $30,000 (£15,300) for the entry-level model that can index 500,000 documents. Google doesn't disclose prices for higher-level models, which include features such as disaster recovery, allowing one geographically distant machine to take over for another if it fails.
The search appliances present results based on a variety of criteria, including records of how often employees click on various search results. They can use connectors to access files archived with document-management systems such as EMC's Documentum. They can also extract structured data stored in databases and software for ERP and CRM.
Adobe is among the customers using the appliance, Glotzbach said.
Hardware for the 3.5-inch thick, rack-mountable server is manufactured by Dell, he said. On top is Google's software, including a customised version of the Linux operating system.
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