• VentureBeat, Friday, August 8, 2008 2:15 PM

Apparently there are no summer doldrums for the search engines--as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have released a slew of new product launches and upgrades over the past few weeks. The latest is an upgrade to Google Search Appliance, an enterprise-side search tool.

Google has pumped Search Appliance with new customization features, including the ability to weight results, based on meta data like a document author's name or document type, and the ability to show different results to different departments.

But according to Anthony Ha, the most newsworthy enhancement is the boost to the amount of data Google Search Appliance can now hold. One device can index 10 million documents, up from 3 million when the product was first launched. "Lead Product Manager Nitin Mangtani says most enterprise search solutions would require 10, 15 or even 20 servers to store that much data," Ha said.

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