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Google Updates Search Appliance to Index 30 million docs

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Google has announce an update to the Search Appliance that allows organizations to index up to 10 million documents with a single search appliance. This is triple the amount of documents from the previous single search appliance.
Search appliances can be clustered to index over 30 millions docs.
In addition the search appliance now has an alert features that allows users to be notified when a document about a specific topic is updated or included in the index. This is similar to the popular Google News Alert feature on Google Web Search Engine.
Other new features include the ability to add more meta data about a document to assist with taxonomy and cataloging.
Enterprise Search

Google US Marketshare is over 67% of all Internet Searches

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Google Internet Search increased its market share of searches in the United States in May, from 67.9 percent share in April to 68.29 percent in May, Hitwise reported.

During May 2008, Yahoo dropped from 20.28 percent to 19.95 percent of the serches and Microsoft dropped from 6.26 percent to 5.89 percent of the searches. Fourth-place Ask.com increased slightly from 4.17 percent to 4.23 percent, Hitwise said. In the U.K., Google had 87 percent search share to Yahoo’s 4.09 percent, Microsoft’s 3.72 percent, and Ask.com’s 3.07 percent.

Microsoft Offers Free Search to Compete with Google Search Appliance

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Microsoft Announces Free Sharepoint Search Server 2008

Available via download; Sharepoint offers these features:

Familiar search experience