Date: 15 Jun 2004 04:49:35 -0000
From: farooque
Google Inc. is expanding its presence behind the firewall with an updated
version of its Google Search Appliance featuring expanded capacity and
improved security. Google Search Appliance GB-1001 supports five times the
document capacity of the previous version, expanding from 300,000
documents to 1.5 million, according to Dave Girouard, general manager of
enterprise at Google. Software enhancements include a continuous crawl
feature that scans and indexes content continually rather than the
previous batch crawling function. "Now it is always crawling documents and
verifying if a document has changed. The result is that content is much
fresher. It is a matter of minutes between a change and the update of the
system," Girouard said. The updated appliance also bolsters security with
added support for HTML-forms-based single sign-on. This feature allows
the appliance to validate corporate user rights so that users will see
only the search results they have access to, Girouard said. Another
software enhancement, dubbed unlimited collections, allows IT managers to
administer multiple appliances separately and tailor indexes for different
departments. The appliance also includes improved filters and more
detailed usage reporting and monitoring to provide information about the
number of queries and most popular search terms, according to Google
officials.
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