SearchMax

Microsoft announced Search Server Express today the features include:

• Go from downloading to searching in minutes with a streamlined installation experience, making it easy to get an enterprise search infrastructure running in your environment quickly.
• Review common administrative tasks, status, and settings in a single view using a unified administrative dashboard.
• Manage content sources, search scopes, authoritative sources, key words, best bets and other relevance tuning through a powerful, easy-to-use management console.
• Help ensure only the right people can find information using query and index-time security trimming.
• Monitor search performance and improve search relevance with query and results reporting.
• Empower your users to quickly find the information they need through a familiar Search Center interface
• Pinpoint the most relevant information you need with recommended best bets, authoritative sources, term definitions, hit highlighting, and query correction.
• Retrieve concise and clear search results with duplicate collapsing, allowing you to quickly review a wide variety of relevant information.
• Stay on top of new information relevant to your work by subscribing to update notifications of your search results using e-mail and RSS alerts.
• Build upon a familiar user interface and application platform that lets you customize your search experience and the actions you can take on your search results.
• Provide a search capability optimized for business data to deliver highly relevant results across intranet and public-facing web site content. Scale your deployment to meet your needs with no pre-set document limits.
• Find information across a variety of business applications and services using federated search connectors.
• Upgrade to a multi-server topology with Microsoft Search Server 2008.
• Upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 when you need to easily index structured information and expertise information , or add enterprise content management, collaboration, or other complementary capabilities to your business productivity infrastructure.

With Google Custom Search Business Edition, website owners can put a Google search box on your website - and let visitors access search results from any website or websites that you choose. Google price : $100 per year for up to 5,000 web pages and $500 per year up to 50,000 web pages or documents. This is good for companies who do not want to purchase a Google Mini or Google Search Appliance.

This is great for small compaines or for companies with websites that are not updated often.

• Increase conversion rates by helping visitors find the products they want, and guiding them to the products you want to sell.
• Improve usability and reduce support inquiries by allowing users to help themselves.

No hardware or software installations are required to use Custom Search Business Edition. To add a search engine to your website, complete the short setup wizard and then copy and paste a snippet of code into your site. Once your search engine is added to your website it can be modified with a search engine’s control panel. Google also offers reporting.