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Google Enterprise Search Appliance

The Google Search Appliance is a rack-mounted device providing document indexing functionality, that can be integrated into an intranet, document management system or web site using a Google search-like interface for end-user retrieval.

Google Universal Search for Business

Every day your employees create documents, presentations, market research reports – information that has tremendous value for your company. Employees can benefit significantly from access to information, but only if they can easily find what they need. Unfortunately, that’s often not the case. Documents are inaccessible because they sit on employee desktops or in hard-to-access document repositories. Even if the content is accessible, without high-quality retrieval technology, employees find it impossible to access key corporate information. The result is valuable information that can’t be accessed by others – reducing your company’s productivity and at times leading to poor decisions based on incomplete access to information.

With the Google Search Appliance, your company’s internal search engine can be just as good as Google’s – and just as easy to use. The Google Search Appliance allows users to search across all content sources within an organization, compare and rank all the information in real time, and deliver a single, integrated, secure set of search results that gives them precisely what they are looking for. With the Google Search Appliance, customers are be able to securely incorporate information from a variety of internal and external sources – including file shares, intranets, databases, applications, hosted services and content management systems – into a single set of results. Google search delivers fast, relevant and secure access to information, increasing the velocity of business

The Google Search Appliance integrates with your existing security and access control systems to provide document-level security. Users will only see search results if they have access to the source content, ensuring your organization’s information is always safe and secure.

Why Google Enterprise Search Appliance?

• Fast and Effitient way to connect people to information (average search result come up in just 0.01 seconds!)
• Increase employee productivity and collaboration. (Reduce redundant work spent for data search and quirying other employees.)
• Higly configurable enterprise solution allows company to promote more relevant data using keymatch filters, sugest tools and advance triggering options.

Google Search Appliance (GSA) supports the following

• File shares (HTML, PDF, Microsoft Office, Open Office, and hundreds of others)
• Intranet systemss (CRM systems, financial databases, ERP systems, business intelligence systems)
• Databases (IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase relational database systems.)
• Authentication and authorization support – such as LDAP, Active Directory, NTLM, X.509, Single Sign-On systems and more.
• Content Management Systems (Documentum, FileNet, OpenText, Livelink, and Microsoft Sharepoint. In addition, there is a built-in Content Connector Framework , which includes a robust SPI to build custom connectors to other content management systems.)
• Multilanguage support and Auto Language Detection
• Fully customisable triggers/filters/synonims support for specific search requests/results.

Security Implications

• Access control checks are performed in real-time, thus always guaranteeing that only authorized users view your information.
• Two users can run the same query but see different results depending on their access rights (only content that should be accessible to the search user is returned in the results list.)
• indexes both public and privileged information and enforces your organization’s document-level security policies at the time of search.
• Secure Web Content. Enable secure searching of information protected by basic HTTP authentication, NTLM version 1 and 2, as well as Windows Integrated Authentication.

Enterprise Search Appliance (pdf file - 213k)
Search Enterprise Features
Google Enterprise Security Implications