Google Search Appliance: now searching billions of documents

Google Inc. has announced a new edition of the Google Search Appliance, GSA 6.0, with architecture that promises to index all of even the largest organization's content: limitless linking of appliances to create unparalleled enterprise search power.

The GSA 6.0 allows businesses to scale to billions of documents. GSA 6.0 comes with options to customize administrative, security and relevancy features.

Ranking Framework, Node Biasing and Collection Biasing allow administrators to fine-tune search results to your needs. The new Administrative API provides more control for automation of common tasks, and GSA 6.0 now supports both early and late binding, so search results can be screened according to company security policies.

Along with improved precision in the core algorithms, GSA 6.0 includes social search features, such as Query Suggestions and User-added Results, that aggregate knowledge across the organization for more precise search results . Additionally, cross-language enterprise search also enables enterprise users across the globe to translate their search results in real-time.

The new model for customers with the highest document counts, the GB-9009, comes with built-in redundancy and enhanced performance, and built on the PowerEdge R710 platform from Dell and powered by Xeon 5500 Series processors from Intel.