Google has redesigned the software architecture for its hardware  -based Google Search Appliance to let large businesses scale their internal indexing capabilities and search across billions of corporate documents.
Through the addition of GSA 6.0, enterprises will be able to give all their employees access to the Google search experience inside their businesses -- even if they are searching across dispersed intranets, data stores, languages or geographies, said Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard.
"With the improved architecture and software for the search appliance, global businesses can provide secure search across the largest enterprise content repositories -- with one GSA system that can scale to billions of documents without limits," Girouard said.
Customization Tweaks
The goal of GSA 6.0 is to give enterprises the technology they need to interconnect and search across as many appliances as possible, wrote Google Enterprise Search engineer Shamim Alpha in a recent blog. "Information doesn't do you much good if you can't find it," Alpha said.
For example, Google beta trial participant MTCSC is deploying more than 50 Google Search Appliances all over the world on behalf of a federal customer . The system, which connects to more than 2,500 data sources, consists of data on Web sites, file shares, databases and SharePoint servers.
"The new GSA 6.0 architecture is now helping them integrate information from the varied data centers to provide users with a single, unified set of results," Alpha wrote, "whether in one location or separated across departments or even across continents."
The revamped GSA architecture incorporates a new administrative API that provides more control for automation of common tasks. Moreover, customization features -- such as a ranking framework, node biasing, and collection biasing -- allow businesses to tweak their internal search results to meet specific needs and requirements.
Setting the enterprise up with GSA 6.0 can save businesses employee hours spent looking for data and allow organizations to focus on the work that needs to be done, said Product Manager Cyrus Mistry.
"The GSA makes searching within your organization as simple as searching on Google.com," Mistry said. "It also has helpful features like user-added results and query suggestions, so over time your coworkers' input improves search results." (continued...)
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