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January 30, 2007

Google announces that its Mini Search Appliance now offers more search features for fetching and sharing various data within small businesses and departmental groups.

Google's new Mini Search Appliance now includes document and user-level security, as well as access to any business content through Google Onebox for Enterprise.

"In August 2005 when the Google Mini was introduced, it set new standards for sophisticated search features in a small and simple appliance, all at an affordable price," said Dave Girouard, v.p. and general manager, Google Enterprise. Google's basic model of the Mini costs $1995 and includes:

1) Secure Search
Specially enhanced to support the information-sharing needs inside of small businesses and departmental workgroups, the Google Mini offers document and user-level security across all business content. Google's access control capabilities integrate with existing security systems, ensuring that employees can access only information they are authorized to view.

2) Google One-Box for Enterprise
Introduced in 2006 as part of the Google Search Appliance™, the Google OneBox for Enterprise feature lets businesses provide secure access to any information - such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status - through the convenience of a Google search box. Google OneBox for Enterprise is a feature developed in partnership with some of the world's leading enterprise application vendors.

With Google OneBox for Enterprise, employees can search across a greater variety of corporate information stored in such business systems as Business Objects, Cognos, Cisco, Employease, Microsoft Exchange, Netsuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAS and others. Overall, businesses can also create OneBox modules to access applications built in-house.

3) Site Search Improvements
Site administrators can now link the Google Mini search results page with Google Analytics™ to provide more detailed information about how people use search on their site in order to improve the overall site experience. The new Google Mini also automatically generates sitemaps - allowing webmasters to expose more public content for crawling and indexing by Google.com.

The Google Mini is offered in versions that search from 50,000 up to 300,000 documents, includes a year of tech support and is available for purchase online. Thousands of small-business customers already rely on the Google Mini to provide fast and relevant search results for their businesses.

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Source: Google Inc.