Yesterday (15th May), Google search appliances have finally made its official debut in Malaysia. The launch was organized by the sole distributor of GSA in Malaysia – Ingram Micro, at Sime Darby Convention Centre. I was there for this half-day event.
What this means is that, any organization in Malaysia which has always been saying “make it like Google la!” can now opt for a search engine which behaves like Google for his/her organization. At a price of course.
The yellow box shown above is Google Search Appliance, while the blue box is Google Mini. My friend Wai Pei says the yellow box looks like a piece of cheese!
Google Mini
The blue color Google Mini is designed to crawl and index intranets, file servers and business applications reachable by web URLs. Yes, Google Mini crawls to any content and document, as long as it is identifiable by URL.
For example, let say you have a news portal, which is featuring news publishing, blogs, image & video gallery, and forum, then you may deploy Google Mini to empower your portal, to deliver search results from all these web contents, with Google’s algorithm.
Google Search Appliance
On the other hand, Google Search Appliance provides universal search across variety of internal and external sources – including file shares, intranets, databases, applications, hosted services and content management systems. This yellow cheese supports searching of a lot more sources, practically anything that you can think of for enterprise needs.
In a knowledge-driven organization, it’s common to see the whole organization being flooded with hundreds of thousand to millions of documents, residing in many internal business applications and databases. Hectic problem arises when someone is trying to look for relevant information.
In situation like this, Google Search Appliance is more applicable, comparing to Google Mini, as your content sources are not just confined to web contents. Besides, intranet portals can also integrate with Google Search Appliance via a set of API.
Hardware by Dell
Just if you’re curious, the server hardware is actually supplied by Dell, but custom-dressed hehe
Malaysia Pricing
Google search Appliance: RM197,300 (for 500,000 documents, including hardware, software and 2 years support)
Google Mini: RM20,999 (for 50,000 documents, including hardware, software and 2 years support)
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Finally, they arrive in Malaysia!
Wow, so the algo was preinstalled inside? Is it like a search engine within a private network?
I just love Google~
vhanded:
Yes, it comes in a set of Google search engine (with Google’s algorithm of course) and hardware.