We've released a number of updated product and vendor evaluations within our enterprise search & information access research stream this week. Our analyst team (Apoorv Durga, Adriaan Bloem, and I) is seeing many search vendors broadening their capabilities. But as usual, with more complexities come more potential implementation pitfalls and challenges.

A few highlights from the updates:

- An in-depth look at Google's new release of the Search Appliance

- A shift of Vivisimo and Coveo into the Platform category, where they share the stage with big players such as Microsoft, Autonomy, and Endeca. We explain how they've evolved over the last year in particular to warrant a spot on this stage. We couldn't disagree more with Autonomy's claim that search has become a "one-horse race"

- A closer look at IBM's new application of Lucene indexes

- We also look in-depth at the latest search technology updates from ISYS, Lucene / Solr, SAP, Open Text, and the array of search offerings from Microsoft

Subscribers can access all the updates here. To download a free sample (which features Microsoft), sign up here.