Google has Tuesday a new version of its search appliance for the enterprise market will be presented. Version 7.0 has, according to Google, including a better algorithm, so the search results would have to be better.
In addition to a better algorithm, and therefore get better search results, has released version 7.0 of the Google Search Appliance, a more extensive translation module, which, among other Arab and Chinese documents can be translated. The search service of Google for businesses is a combination of Google software and a server that users in their own data center.
In addition, the support for Sharepoint improved. Exchange is still not supported, although users can, according to Google-manager Brent VerWeyst a private connector to write which they have Exchange support.
The device comes in two configurations: a 2U server containing a maximum of 10 million documents can handle, and a 5U server that is up to 30 million documents to index. Optionally, different servers are combined for the search of more documents. Cheap is the Google Search Appliance not; for a license that doorzoekenen of a maximum of 500,000 documents to be made for two or three years, $ 15,000 per year to be paid.
About the technical specifications of the product want to Google little release. So the company did not say on what operating system the servers are running. About the supplier of the hardware would Google just say this, nothing has changed compared to previous versions. That ran on hardware from Dell. In addition, they had a Cent OS-Linuxdistro on board.
Moreover, offered Google in 2008 for a short time a virtualized version of the Search Appliance, which users on your own hardware could run. Or the company intends for the project to resume, the company wants to not indicate. “But at Google, we are extremely committed to cloud computing,” said Google manager VerWeyst.
