Google Mini gets a feature boost

By Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com
Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:27 AM

The Google Mini search appliance had three new features added, as well as support for six additional languages.

The search giant, which has been building up its enterprise presence for several years now, is now bolting on file system access control, source biasing and date biasing to Google Mini.

File system access control is designed to let Google Mini search through files housed in shared drives and display them as search results to authorized users.

Source biasing aims to give users the ability to rank URLs based on the location and type of documents they are seeking, resulting in highly ranked documents appearing further up on the search page.

"Sometimes, files from a certain server are less important and shouldn't clog the search-results page. Source biasing enables users to give us URL patterns and tell us if they should be weighted higher or lower," Cyrus Mistry, Google enterprise product manager, said in a posting on Google's Enterprise Blog.

Google also has created date biasing, which pushes more recently created documents to the top of the page.

Google Mini, which offers the capacity to search from 50,000 to 300,000 documents, has also increased the number of languages it supports by adding Basque, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, and Polish.

Last year, Google expanded its enterprise software offering with Google Mini 2.2.

This article was originally a blog post on CNET News.com.


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