Google Upgrades Mini Search Appliance

To celebrate the second birthday of the Google Mini search appliance for small businesses, Google has upgraded the device with a number of new features to make it more flexible while remaining affordable at $1,995 for the base model. Existing customers can simply upgrade their hardware to take advantage of the improvements.

Google has endeavored to make the Mini more useful for both public Web sites and Intranets, linking it with a number of enterprise applications such as Salesforce, SAP and Oracle, in addition to integrating Google webmaster tools, Analytics, and a new administration interface. Document-level security has also been added to search results, enabling the application to index protected content and make sure users can only see links they can access.