Google has announced new upgrades to its Google Enterprise Labs application as part of its enhancement of Google Search Appliance.The search engine has released version 5.0 of its Search Appliance, which was launched five years ago and is designed to enable organisations to find and use digital information at a faster rate.
Commenting on the progress of the appliance, Matthew Glotzbach, programme management director at Google Enterprise, said: "We started with intranet web servers, added security and more than 220 different file types and found hundreds of partners and thousands of customers."
According to TMCnet, since its launch, Google Search Appliance has seen on average over 100 per cent growth year-on-year. Today more than 10,000 firms use the product.
The new Google Enterprise Labs site features tools to help companies improve their search capabilities.
Among the additions is a "search-as-you-type" feature, which allows users "to add dynamic, real-time search to [their] Google Mini or Google Search Appliance".
With the new facility, search boxes will present suggestions and auto-complete queries as the user is typing.
In the past, user requests to add keymatches would have had to go through their relevant Google Search Appliance administrator. But the new version of Google Search Appliance lets "users collaborate and improve ... search[es] automatically" through Do-It-Yourself Keymatch.
Google Search Appliance works by creating a master index of users' documents that is subsequently ready for "instant retrieval" using search technology supplied by Google.
