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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 Mini

13-Jan-2005

Google is coming out with a "mini" version of its increasingly popular search appliance. Google Mini only indexes 50,000 documents, but costs only US$5,000, which includes hardware. It's a smart move, since the lower end of the search market is not well served (except maybe by hosted vendors) right now. Even low-priced search software can be complicated to install and configure. As always, Google will perform better with Web content than other forms of enterprise information (though it continues to work on the latter). Licensees should also carefully inventory their existing content and its growth rate, because going above 50,000 documents means a rude -- or at least costly -- surprise...
Read more about Google Mini in InfoWorld

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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