Google polishes its search boxes

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Sep 20, 20061 min

Google has souped up its Google Search Appliance line, adding greater capacity and additional features. Among them, the GB-5005 can now sift through 10 million documents; the GB-8008 can search over 30 million. Additionally, the boxes offer date and number-range search, according to Google Search Product Manager Nitin Mangtani in the Google Enterprise Blog. "So now you can restrict your search to only those docu

Google has souped up its Google Search Appliance line, adding greater capacity and additional features.

Among them, the GB-5005 can now sift through 10 million documents; the GB-8008 can search over 30 million.

Additionally, the boxes offer date and number-range search, according to Google Search Product Manager Nitin Mangtani in the Google Enterprise Blog. “So now you can restrict your search to only those documents authored between say, January 1st and September 19th 2006. Similarly, when you’re looking for that special Digital Camera, you can restrict your search to cameras in the $250 to $1000 price range.”

Finally, Google has added administrative interfaces, product documentation, and search interface in an additional 10 languages, making the grand total 16. (That’s Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.)

InfoWorld Senior Contributing Editor Mike Heck reviewed a Google appliance a while back, and we liked what we saw. Perhaps we’re due for another.

Google Search Appliance start at $30,000. Updates for existing customers are available from the Google Support site.