Google Upgrades Mini Search Appliance
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To celebrate the second birthday of the Google Mini search appliance for small businesses, Google has upgraded the device with a number of new features to make it more flexible while remaining affordable at $1,995 for the base model.
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InfoWorld - Google&#160;has improved the security and search features of its Mini search device, a hardware box with Google software aimed at small and medium-size companies and at departments within large organizations.
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OCTOBER 15, 2004  - Google Inc. is bringing its proven search capabilities to a Windows XP- or Windows 2000-equipped computer near you, helping users to catalog most of the files and content
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Are you a small website unsatisfied with the quality of your search capabilities? Never fear, Google's here.
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(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ has improved the security and search features of its Mini search device, a hardware box with Google software aimed at small and medium-size companies and at departments within large organizations. In its 2.2 version, slated for release on Tuesday, the Mini will gain some features already present in the company's Search Appliance, a similar product that is more sophisticated and powerful and designed for large organizations, said Kevin Gough, a Google enterprise product manager. Industry observers have been waiting for Google to give the Mini a boost, as a reaction to a serious challenger the product got in December whenÂ IBM and Yahoo launchedÂ a free, entry-level, enterprise search application. That competing product, called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, can index up to 500,000 documents. The Mini starts at $1,995 for 50,000 documents and tops out at 300,000 documents in its $8,995 edition. In terms of security, the Mini will for the first time recognize access settings for users and documents that an administrator has pre-established in Windows' NTLM (NT LAN Manager) authentication protocol and Active Directory. The Mini has also gained the ability to apply access settings and authentication requirements defined by administrators in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directories and in HTTP Basic schemes for online transactions. Meanwhile, a major search improvement is the OneBox feature, which lets the engine identify the intent of certain queries and compile and present a digest of data at the top of the search results list that may answer the user's questions, saving them from having to click on search results. OneBox can be configured to compile human resources data, sales transaction details and employee contact and calendar information, for example. The upgraded Mini now integrates with Google's hosted Analytics service that tracks and logs Web site usage. In particular, the Mini integration will enhance and enrich the data Analytics gathers related to users' search activities. In a similar fashion, the Mini has been linked with Google's Sitemaps service, which lets webmasters put a file on their sites that tells Google's automated Web crawler the proper way to index their sites' Web pages. The Mini 2.2 gives administrators the option of creating or improving their Web sites' site maps. Finally, the Mini has gained the ability to limit search queries based on ranges of numbers, such as dates or prices. While the security features are a must-have in corporate search tools, and thus a catch-up move for the Mini, the integration with Google Analytics gives it an edge over competing products, said Guy Creese, an analyst with Burton Group. Companies of all sizes are eager to improve their understanding of what their clients do on their Web sites, and gaining a better insight into clients' search activities is extremely valuable, he said. The language in search queries provides more concrete clues about a client's intentions and desires than the recording of the client's mouse clicks on the site, Creese said.
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Google launches a search engine service for as little as $100 a year, aimed at attracting small businesses.
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(InfoWorld) - Google introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page. The product, Custom Business Search Edition, adds to Google'sÂ growing portfolio of paid servicesÂ for businesses. It builds on Google'sÂ Custom Search Engine, a free, ad-supported product launched last October for searching within a predefined group of Web sites. A key difference with the paid edition is that businesses can customize the search page with their own logo and color scheme. They can also modify results by manipulating an XML (Extensible Markup Language) feed of the raw search results, to guide visitors toward products the company wants to sell, for example. The service is priced at $100 per year for Web sites with up to 500 pages, and $500 for up to 50,000 pages, Google said on its Web site. Custom Business Search Edition uses the same index Google uses to deliver its other search results, and Google's own servers are used for searches. To set up the service, customers follow a set-up wizard and copy a small amount of code to their Web site. They get access to a reporting graph with daily and monthly views of how many times people used the search engine and what search terms they used. The service provides an option for businesses who want to bring Google's powerful search technology into their organization but without paying for more expensive products. The company already sells the Google Search Appliance, starting at $30,000 for 500,000 documents, which indexes material in file servers, content management systems, databases and other sources. It also offers the Mini Search Appliance starting at $1,995 for 50,000 documents. Along with English, Google's Custom Search Business Edition supports Bulgarian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Â
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Sci/Tech News, SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. announced a new test service that allows people to use mobile phones or handheld devices to tap Google&#39;s Web search via text messages, or short message service.
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Not too long ago, Google Inc seemed little more than a nuisance to Microsoft Corp&#39;s software domination. No more. As Google rapidly rolls out new products, the company best known for its wildly popular search
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Google have hosted a customized Internet Explorer search page for many years now specially designed to act as sidebar search. And with the launch of the first final release of the very popular Mozilla Firefox
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Google will boost its universal search effort, making a bolder push to blend a variety of Web links into a single results list.
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Late yesterday, Microsoft dropped the "beta" term from Windows Live Search, officially launching the search engine as a 1.0 service.  Missing is some of the glitz that characterized its earlier releases from back in November, but can the simplified Live Search better compete with Google?
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Last week when Google came up with its Desktop Search, it promised to make finding files on our desktop a lot less painful. Knowing Google and its other services, I had little doubt that the new tool from their stable would be incredible.
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(InfoWorld) - Ingram Micro will distribute Google's Search Appliance and Google Mini enterprise search devices, a deal intended to accelerate sales of the products, the companies announced Wednesday. Google, which has sold about 9,000 of the devices to date, expects the distribution deal with Ingram to boost sales in particular among SMBs. Ingram, with its distribution network of more than 165,000 retailers and resellers worldwide, is also expected to help increase sales internationally as well as in the government and education sectors. "The only way to meet the growing demand for the products is to go through channels," said Rodrigo Vaca, channel marketing manager of the Google Enterprise unit. Vaca declined to provide details of the effect Google hopes the deal will have on sales. "We expect this to have a significant impact," he said. Google already has deals in place with regional distributors in Japan, Australia, and parts of Latin Americaand expects the Ingram relationship to be complementary to those arrangements, Vaca said. The Ingram deal will initially focus on the U.S. and will expand to other regions like Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific later this year, he said. So far, Google has sold the products almost exclusively via its own direct sales staff in the U.S. and Europe. "Our strategy is to have our direct sales force work hand-in-hand with the channel," he said. As part of the agreement, Ingram will provide sales assistance, marketing resources, credit help, and technical support to the resellers that carry the Google products. The Ingram deal isn't exclusive, Vaca said. In a news release, Ingram, which distributes hundreds of thousands of IT products from about 1,400 suppliers, said the deal strengthens the menu of wares it can offer to its channel partners. The Search Appliance and Google Mini are server-side hardware devices loaded with Google's search engine software designed to let companies index and find information stored on corporate servers. Although Google generates most of its revenue from search engine advertising in the consumer market, company officials have said they are committed to its Enterprise unit, which, in addition to the search devices, also markets business software. The Google Mini, designed for SMBs or departments within large organizations, starts at $1,995 with a capacity to index 50,000 documents. It tops out at 300,000 documents. The Search Appliance, which is more powerful and has more features, starts at $30,000 with a 500,000-document capacity and tops out at 30 million documents. The Google products typically cost less than more sophisticated enterprise search products and are designed to be easier to install, manage, and use. However, analysts generally agree that the Google products don't match the feature set of high-end enterprise search products from companies like Autonomy and Fast Search & Transfer.
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Google Inc.  on Thursday rolled out a preliminary version of its new desktop search tool, making the first move against its major competitors in the race to provide tools for finding information buried in computer hard drives.
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Google Desktop Search is an amazing little tool. It allows you to search your computer more quickly, completely and intuitively than Windows&#39; search feature.
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A three-panel layout features search suggestions and specialty search engine results, along with new algorithmic improvements.