Web search leader Google is hoping to rev up lackluster sales in the enterprise search market with an updated hardware and software package that promises faster and more comprehensive results for corporations, governments and universities.
The new box is the first upgrade for Google's enterprise search appliance since the appliance was launched two years ago, and it marks a significant boost in performance, according to David Girouard, the general manager of Google's enterprise division. The new system is bigger, with more processing power and memory, allowing a single box to index up to 1.5 million documents and 300 queries per minute, fivefold increases over the earlier model, he said. The boxes cost between $32,000 and $175,000 each, depending on the configuration.
Girouard also touted software improvements such as secure sign-on, which limits queries to only those documents that a particular employee is authorized to see. In addition, the new system continuously crawls corporate intranets seeking out and updating only new documents and changes in existing documents. The previous system used a less efficient batch-crawling technique, Girouard said, which updated the entire index once every two or three days. Google dominates Web search, but it has struggled to transplant its success seamlessly to the business of simplifying document searches for corporations. Significantly, some of the techniques that have made the company a household name for serving up fast and relevant Web results don't work in the vastly different arena of corporate intranets.
News source: C|net
The new box is the first upgrade for Google's enterprise search appliance since the appliance was launched two years ago, and it marks a significant boost in performance, according to David Girouard, the general manager of Google's enterprise division. The new system is bigger, with more processing power and memory, allowing a single box to index up to 1.5 million documents and 300 queries per minute, fivefold increases over the earlier model, he said. The boxes cost between $32,000 and $175,000 each, depending on the configuration.
Girouard also touted software improvements such as secure sign-on, which limits queries to only those documents that a particular employee is authorized to see. In addition, the new system continuously crawls corporate intranets seeking out and updating only new documents and changes in existing documents. The previous system used a less efficient batch-crawling technique, Girouard said, which updated the entire index once every two or three days. Google dominates Web search, but it has struggled to transplant its success seamlessly to the business of simplifying document searches for corporations. Significantly, some of the techniques that have made the company a household name for serving up fast and relevant Web results don't work in the vastly different arena of corporate intranets.
News source: C|net
What's New in This Release:
· [+] Mail Chat (Tools|Mail Chat)
· [+] Chat Virtual folders for watching conversation threads or waiting for replies to specific messages
· [+] "Utilities|Create a Quick Template" menu command in the message editor to quickly create a QT based on the selected text
· [+] (#0001869) New Window Split Mode - Full-width Message List
· [+] Automatic filtering on IMAP
· [+] Customizable hotkeys for next/prev folder tab (Edit shortcuts/MainMenu/Specials)
· [+] It is now possible to re-filter only selected messages
· [+] Message Editor (using MicroEd) has new status - AutoFormat, AutoWrap, JustifyOnWrap, AutoSpell
· [+] Possibility to insert a line divider in HTML editor
· [+] URLs of incoming messages are added to the log
· [+] Possibility to open URLs by double click from the account's log viewer
· [+] Smartpad.ini: [Options] Taskbar = 1 - shows smartpad in taskbar
· [+] Support of ImagesPDSF.MSL file for translating smileys (see the Beta distribution file)
· [+] VF message DblClk - opens VF folder view; Ctrl+DblClk - Follows message; Shift+DblClk - opens folder view
· [+] Viewing account's log window is no longer modal
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· [ * ] (#0002992) UTF-7/8 decoding is now much faster
· [ * ] It is now possible to log manual refiltering
· [ * ] Search options in the Accont Log View pop-up menu
· [ * ] The current folder was removed from the Unread tab when new mail was received
· [-] (#0001633) Character set detection bug in PGP/MIME messages
· [-] (#0001742) Unread messages were loaded and treated as read during refiltering process
· [-] (#0002259) Embedded image files were multiplicated at each [auto] save
· [-] (#0002653) Account tree nodes' states were not stored correctly
· [-] (#0002673) Selected shortcuts for Send/Queue in the message editor weren't remembered
· [-] (#0002716) Access Violation error while search in a deleted folder
· [-] (#0002764) The "l" LDAP attribute was not processed
· [-] (#0002922) Deleted messages counters were not updated in the Folder Maintenance Centre
· [-] (#0002951) Access Violation error when selecting folders for search in message reminder
· [-] (#0002955) Generic view mode setting is not saved, previous setting is used after restart
· [-] (#0002972) Account tree expand, when you open the account properties
· [-] (#0002997) Split mode - full width msg list - msg preview toggle one way
· [-] (#0003005) Virtual Folders think they're Normal Folders is VF name and Directory are not the same
· [-] (#0003026) Option "Edit | Select all" doesn't work in HTML editor, Ctrl+A works
· [-] (#0003027) MessageFinder does not "Follow"
· [-] (#0003038) Using "IMAP Folder management" deletes account level VFs
· [-] IMAP folder management could fail to see some folders on some IMAP servers
· [-] No duplicates of message in chat folders
· [-] Some other minor fixes
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