Although available for two years in North America, Google's enterprise search product, the Google "Appliance," could heretofore not be purchased overseas -- presumably for intellectual property reasons and a desire to minimize risks before the company's major IPO. Now the appliance is available in the UK and other European countries where the company has significant market penetration for public web search. Of course, as CMS Watch Enterprise Search Report buyers know, there is a significant difference between searching public webpages with an emphasis on (among other things) link density to determine result relevancy, versus searching heterogeneous enterprise content. Google's appliance still needs some work, but now it will get tested in more places...
Read BBC's Review of the Appliance