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The Enterprise Search Report 2008 looks at... Google Appliance

"Even Google's marketing won't go so far as to call their implementation "enterprise-class security," instead favoring to highlight single sign-on (which the Appliance supports quite well). Document-level security is handled late-binding - the result sets are filtered for hits a searcher is allowed to see, which requires the system to fire off separate requests for each hit to see if it may be displayed. This has only one advantage - the authorization will be up-to-date to the second - but, certainly in Google's implementation, several drawbacks. "

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Put to the Test: Google Search Appliance

21-Mar-2008

My colleagues Tony Byrne and Adriaan Bloem recently wrote up a summary of pros and cons, as well as offered sound advice, regarding the Google Search Appliance.

The skinny, as we've written about in bits and pieces before: the Google Mini and Google Search Appliance have long offered solid alternatives for website and departmental search, but security and adaptability still come up short for the demands of enterprise deployments. Learn more here, or look to our full, in-depth evaluation in the latest version of the Enterprise Search Report, where we stack up Google against its main competitors.

- Submitted by: Theresa Regli, Analyst

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