The Indexing of 10 Millions Files in a Single Box With New Google Search Appliance
The Google Search appliance, an integrated hardware and software solution for content indexing was updated. It provides to any organization the possibility to index up to 10 millions files by using a single box.
Dave Girouard, president of Enterprise for Google stated:”It is now easier than ever for companies to give all employees a Google.com search experience inside their business. With the improved architecture for the search appliance, businesses can provide secure search across the largest enterprise content repositories—such as Documentum, Filenet, LiveLink, and Sharepoint—all from one easy-to-maintain appliance.”
The users will experience an improved experience due to an increased search mechanisms quality. The new Google Search appliance offers multiple search capabilities of data contained in websites, databases or enterprise content systems (OpenText, Livelink, Microsoft SharePoint and more).
The personalization of search results can be performed for user groups according to a certain department or function. The search results also support an advanced biasing based on metadata.
Other features of the new Google Search appliance are: the users can obtain email alerts for a certain type of documents based on a periodic shedule, improved security and multi-language support.
The advantage of this new Google Search appliance is represented by the possibility of replacements of traditional indexing methods for enterprise content indexing that require ten or more servers. By implementing the Google search software and hardware technology contained in the new appliance the content grow will not be a problem anymore.
The cost of content indexing process and of the personnel responsible for this task will be reduced by eliminating the need of new investments in employees and additional hardware.
