My colleagues Tony Byrne and Adriaan Bloem recently wrote up a summary of pros and cons, as well as offered sound advice, regarding the Google Search Appliance.

The skinny, as we've written about in bits and pieces before: the Google Mini and Google Search Appliance have long offered solid alternatives for website and departmental search, but security and adaptability still come up short for the demands of enterprise deployments. Learn more here, or look to our full, in-depth evaluation in the latest version of the Enterprise Search Report, where we stack up Google against its main competitors.