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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 seeks partners for enterprise search products

22-Sep-2005

InfoWorld reports that Google is seeking partners to expand the reach of its enterprise search products through a program called "Google Enterprise Professional." The move makes sense; value-add resellers have long populated the enterprise search ecosystem, and as one integrator points out, Google has no professional services organization to compete with them. But wait! I thought the Google Appliance was supposed to be so simple that customers needn't perform hardly any customization. Just plop it in a rack, turn it on, and voilà: enterprise search. Well, as Steve Arnold points out, enterprise search projects remain complicated in any form, and after years of innovation, still require experienced information professionals to make them work.

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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