Google Updates Search Appliance

Google announced a new version of the Google Search Appliance integrated hardware and software solution. In addition to capacity and performance improvements, the new Google Search Appliance offers improved search quality, enhanced personalization, security and language support. Features include: Indexes 10 million documents in a single appliance; Search across all enterprise content - Universal search capabilities for secure access to web servers, portals, file shares, databases, real-time business data, and enterprise content systems including EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink, and Microsoft SharePoint; Personalization - New scoring policies allow administrators to adjust search results for different user groups, based on department or function; Advanced Biasing - Administrators can now bias results based on metadata; Alerts - Employees can subscribe to email alerts for topics and documents of interest; Advanced reporting - The search appliance now offers advanced search analytics for every query; Enterprise Labs Search Innovation - The Google Enterprise Labs site gives businesses early access to the latest search experiments in order to evaluate and provide feedback; Native Support for Kerberos - Google Search Appliance supports Kerberos to provide single authentication for Sharepoint, file shares and non-Windows-based content systems, in addition to Windows-based systems; International Expansion - International support expanding to include: administrative functions in four new languages (English-UK, Portuguese-Portugal, Turkish, Vietnamese); contextual spell checking for all end users in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch; and contextual query expansion for all end users in Dutch. http://www.google.com