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Google Inc. has upgraded its Mini enterprise search tool, including new capabilities to improve the relevance of results and extend the reach of the product. The Mini is Google’s lower end search appliance for firms looking to search up to 300,000 documents. The latest version includes the ability to search files and documents stored on shared drives, and support for six more languages - Basque, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, and Polish. Google Mini also features new technology which allows users to sort results by date or source.
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Google has begun experimenting with a new cross-language ability for its Search Appliance, a server customers can use to power their in-house search service. Many of our enterprise search customers have dozens of offices all over the world with tens of millions documents indexed in a host of different languages. Cross-Language Enterprise Search instantly translates your Google Search Appliance query from one language to one or more other languages using Google’s best-in-class translation engine. Existing customers can try the feature by downloading it through Google Enterprise Labs.
Spurred by moves from its biggest rival, Microsoft Corp., and by a burst of offerings from a clutch of innovative startups, Google is tossing more resources at burgeoning enterprise search tools. While in some cases the company is applying techniques and technologies from its consumer Web searches, in others it is bringing new products and new marketing methods to win over business customers. According to Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager for Google’s enterprise search group, enterprise search is moving beyond being just an afterthought to becoming a competitive advantage and a way for businesses to attract and retain customers.
Google Inc. has released a new version of its search appliance for businesses with enhanced end-user features such as personalized alerts and results ranking. The GB-7007 hardware-and-software bundle integrates storage hardware from Dell Inc. and features a self-contained search system for managing an organization’s internal electronic files. GB-7007 can index up to 10 million documents, as compared to 2 million documents that the product’s predecessor, GB-1001, could index. The new version is available in five-box and 12-box rack versions.
Google Inc. on Wednesday August 6, announced a new version of its enterprise-oriented Google Search Appliance that the company said can index up to 10 million documents in a single box — up from 3 million previously — while also giving IT managers more control over the search results that end users see.
Since the introduction of its enterprise search device in 2002, Google Inc. has been following a strategy of capturing the attention of those organizations which have ruled out the establishment of enterprise search systems, mainly due to the factors of cost and convolution. Lately, it has announced the launch of a novel version of its Search Appliance enterprise search device. The indexing capacity of the newer version will be as much as three times more than the current version. The latest enterprise search device, model GB-7007 would have the capacity of indexing as much as 10 million documents. It is an impressive speed as compared to the 3 million documents, maximum indexing capacity of the current product, model GB-1001.