RSSGoogle Search Appliance Gets 'OneBox'
By the Betanews Staff | Published April 19, 2006, 12:15 PM
Google late Tuesday announced an update to its Search Appliance hardware for businesses, which adds what the company calls "OneBox functionality." The idea of the feature is to enable customers to search for a variety of data using a single box, rather than manually selecting what type of data to scour.
Just as Google can load up movie listings, weather and flight information with a standard search query, employees can now access "real-time contact info, sales forecasts, and customer information the very same way," says Google's VP of Enterprise Dave Girouard. "We launched an initial set of OneBox modules with Oracle, Cognos, SAS and Salesforce.com."
Why is this so dang expensive?? You can get entire Document Management systems for the cost of this box, which provides realtime searches (google's doesn't) and about a thousand more features.
500,000 docs should cost less than $7,000:period.
Guess lazy the admin will buy though.
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I most certainly will *not*.
At least...not untill it can do 500,001 documents.
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"OneBox functionality."
what exactly is OneBox?
"The idea of the feature is to enable customers to search for a variety of data using a single box, rather than manually selecting what type of data to scour."
so it reads your mind?
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The idea, for example, is that you type:
contact phone Joe Smith
And it will pull up Joe Smith's contact information from your company's Intranet.
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ah, google for private networks.
good idea, could use it for my puters (500,000+ files). i have google desktop, but my stuff gets moved too often and i get dead links back.
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