Google upgrades search appliance, again
Slowly but surely Google is responding to customer requests for more capacity and greater control over results sets. Google enhanced its mid- and upper-range Appliances, the GB-5005 and GB-8008. The GB-5005 can now handle 10 million documents and the GB-8008 more than 30 million. That's nice, but enterprise searchers want ways to chop down long lists of results. As the volume of electronic information in an organization grows, fewer, on-point results become the order of the day. Appliance users can now limit queries by date range or a numeric search. The Appliance's traditionally somewhat puzzling admin interfaces have been tweaked to group together certain features such as configuring crawls in Windows environments. The upgrade also adds support for an additional 10 languages. Note that these enhancements apply to the Appliance, not the Mini.