Media News - Thursday, August 07, 2008

New Google box for offices can search 10 million files

Google Inc. said on Tuesday it is an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its sells to companies and government organizations for Google-style web search of office documents. The web search leader said the latest version of the Google Search Appliance, a pizza-sized box that holds a self-contained search system for managing an organization's electronic files, can store up to 10 million documents in a single box. The appliances contain Google software to power the search services, running on storage hardware from Dell Inc. New features in the latest model include greater encryption powers and the ability for Google Alerts to notify users when new documents are stored on the network by colleagues. Network administrators will be able to manage Google Search Appliances in 27 languages, adding Turkish, Czech, Vietnamese and Portuguese. The boxes can, in turn, deliver search results to office workers in 40 different languages. (Reuters)

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