InternetGoogle Updates Its Enterprise Search Appliance (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Google on Wednesday began offering an upgraded version of its Search Appliance. The hardware targets enterprises and government agencies that want a Google-like Web search for office documents.

Google on Wednesday began offering an upgraded version of its Search Appliance. The hardware targets enterprises and government agencies that want a Google-like Web search for office documents. The upgraded Google Search Appliance searches up to 10 million documents. That's the same document storage capacity as the previous version that was offered in a five-box rack. A larger, 12-box version can store, manage and search up to 30 million documents. Searching for New Features The latest appliance lets employees subscribe to e-mail alerts for topics and documents of interest, choosing an hourly, daily or weekly schedule. It offers a spell checker in six new languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. Administrators can adjust search results for different user groups, based on department or function. The upgrade offers native support for Kerberos, enabling a silent authentication experience for end users. Administrators can bias results based on metadata, in addition to biasing based on source, URL or date. Administrators can also view and export daily and hourly result sets, top queries, and special feature usage, and generate a report for every query, including reports on which queries receive no clicks by a user and how often users are clicking on sponsored links in comparison to search results or OneBox modules. Universal Search Capabilities Google... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

InternetGoogle launches free music service in China (Reuters)

Reuters - Google Inc has launched a music search service in China that will give users access to free downloads of licensed songs, while capturing advertising revenue for music providers in a market rife with piracy.

InternetGoogle: 10 Million Docs in a Box

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