The Google Search Appliance is a rack-mounted A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is 19 inches wide, including edges or ears that protrude on each side which allow the module to be fastened to the rack frame with screws device providing document indexing functionality, that can be integrated into an intranet An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol technologies to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network within an organization. Sometimes the term, document management system A document management system is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management systems. It is often viewed as a component of enterprise content management (ECM) systems and related to digital asset or web site A website is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed relative to a common Uniform Resource Locator (URL), often consisting of only the domain name, or the IP address, and the root path ('/') in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a using a Google search Google Search or Google Web Search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. and is the most-used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in webpages, as opposed to other data, such as with Google Image Search. Google-like interface for end-user retrieval. The software is produced by Google Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the " and the hardware is manufactured by Dell Computers and is based on Dell's PowerEdge R710.[1]

The device is supplied in three models: an entry-level appliance capable of indexing up to 300,000 documents (Google Mini), a 2U appliance (GB-7007) capable of indexing up to 10,000,000 documents, and a 5U (2U plus 3U storage) appliance (GB-9009) capable of indexing up to 30,000,000 documents.[2] Later versions of the software allow the connecting of multiple appliances to offer searching "up to a billion" documents.[3] Sales are operated on a licensing scheme which starts as a two-year contract for maintenance, support and software updates.

Contents

Features

As well as containing Google search technologies, the Google Search Appliance also contains a number of means of configuring and customizing the appliance; from the documents indexed through to the formatting of result pages. It also comes with a T-shirt.[4]

Other features include

Models

Google Mini

The Google Mini is a smaller and lower-cost solution for small and medium-sized businesses to set up a search engine that allows them to index and search up to 300,000 documents.[5]

Google Search Appliance

The full-fledged Google Search Appliance can be purchased in two separate versions based on the number of documents being indexed. Model GB-7007, a 2U appliance, is used for indexing up to 10,000,000 documents. Indexing up to 30,000,000 documents is done with a GB-9009 5U appliance.[2] Software version 6.0 was released in June, 2009. This software runs on some hardware versions of the GB-1001 model (all units with an "S5" prefix in their "Appliance ID"), and all GB-7007 and GB-9009 models. New features available in this software include:

Older appliances

Google used to sell a 2U appliance (GB-1001) capable of indexing up to 5,000,000 documents, a half-rack cluster (GB-5005) of five 2U nodes capable of indexing up to 10,000,000 documents, and a full-rack cluster (GB-8008) of eight and later twelve nodes capable of indexing up to 30,000,000 documents.[2]

Scalability

Administration

Minimal support infrastructure / admin staff is needed as quoted on their web site “…doesn’t need a tech support baby-sitter. You simply plug it in, configure it, and let it run…”. The device does come with a web based admin console that can be used to make configuration changes where needed. Additional customisation is possible through a Representational State Transfer Representational state transfer is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term Representational State Transfer (REST) was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation. Fielding is one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) (REST) based admin API that allows for automation of tasks. There are also existing admin modules that can be used for customization.

Product availability

Currently, the Google Search Appliance is only available in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and parts of Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and South America. If you are interested in using the Google Search Appliance in another region, you could deploy the Google Search Appliance at a location or data center in the US, Canada, or Europe.

References

  1. ^ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10254486-92.html
  2. ^ a b c Computerworld - Google Releases New Versions of Its Search Appliance
  3. ^ Information Week - Google Connects Search Appliances for Billion Document Indexing
  4. ^ "CAST42". http://castfortwo.blogspot.com/2007/07/unboxing-google-search-appliance.html. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  5. ^ http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/ Google Mini Homepage
  6. ^ http://i.foundituseful.com/category/7.aspx GSA Introduction

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