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The Enterprise Search Report 2008 looks at... Google Appliance

"Even Google's marketing won't go so far as to call their implementation "enterprise-class security," instead favoring to highlight single sign-on (which the Appliance supports quite well). Document-level security is handled late-binding - the result sets are filtered for hits a searcher is allowed to see, which requires the system to fire off separate requests for each hit to see if it may be displayed. This has only one advantage - the authorization will be up-to-date to the second - but, certainly in Google's implementation, several drawbacks. "

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Google Appliance Crosses the Atlantic

26-Oct-2004

Although available for two years in North America, Google's enterprise search product, the Google "Appliance," could heretofore not be purchased overseas -- presumably for intellectual property reasons and a desire to minimize risks before the company's major IPO. Now the appliance is available in the UK and other European countries where the company has significant market penetration for public web search. Of course, as CMS Watch Enterprise Search Report buyers know, there is a significant difference between searching public webpages with an emphasis on (among other things) link density to determine result relevancy, versus searching heterogeneous enterprise content. Google's appliance still needs some work, but now it will get tested in more places...
Read BBC's Review of the Appliance

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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