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Google Updates Search Appliance to Index 30 million docs

dfg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:45:45 +0000

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

How to Get Images on Google Earth and Google Maps

dfg — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:09:28 +0000

Panoramio is a website that enables digital photographers to geolocate, store and organize their photographs and to view those photographs in Google Earth and Google Maps. This is great for building brand awareness for retail stores and other location based services.

Images can them be viewed online by your customers or prospects. In additon mobile and wireless devices can access the maps and images via Goolge Maps and Google Earth.

We can assisit you with building this into your website or intranet.

Google US Marketshare is over 67% of all Internet Searches

dfg — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:09:10 +0000

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

dfg — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:23:23 +0000

Microsoft Announces Free Sharepoint Search Server 2008

Available via download; Sharepoint offers these features:

Familiar search experience

Search Center. Empower your people to quickly find the information they need through a familiar Web-style search interface and easy-to-use query syntax. Reconfigure the layout of Search Center elements without writing any code.

Content Summaries. Quickly browse textual summaries of content that appear in the context of your search terms.

Hit Highlighting. Quickly spot where your search terms appear in search results and content summaries.

Best Bets and Definitions. View highlighted, editorialized sites or definitions for common search terms likely to have a single authoritative answer.

Query Correction. Receive helpful “Did you mean?” suggestions for misspelled queries.

Duplicate Collapsing. Find the content you’re looking for faster, using more concise, structured search results with grouped duplicates.

Filter by Property. Filter content by configurable properties, including common properties like document type, author, title, size, location, and date of creation or last modification.

Filter by Language. Retrieve search results that are automatically biased by your language, or pre-select a language to filter your results against.

Sort by Date. Retrieve the most current information related to your search query.

Tabbed Search Results. Create visual containers in the Search Center, for search results associated with your search scopes.

E-mail / RSS Alerts. Stay on top of new information relevant to your work by subscribing to update notifications of your most common searches.

Out-of-the-box Relevancy. Get relevant search results immediately, without extensive configuration, using a ranking engine developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research and Windows Live search.