Google Search Appliance: Feet on the Ground, Head in the Cloud

If your company has followed the ‘yellow brick’ road to use a Google Search Appliance to allow information held on its corporate networks to be searched using Google technology, then you may be happy to know that Google is thinking outside of the box with this latest addition – Cloud Connect.

With Cloud Connect your Google Search Appliance can now deliver search results not just from your corporate network, but also from ‘the cloud’. So data held in Google Docs or Google Sites can now be included, meaning improved access to collaborative documents.

Intrigued by the idea of the Google Search Assistant (and like shiny yellow hardware)? Here is an overview video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NrO4Llyr0Y[/youtube]

More information can be found on the Google Enterprise Blog and on the Google Search Assistant Homepage.

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