Google Updates Enterprise Offerings

Fresh from the Google Enterprise Blog, Google announces its updated Google Mini and Google Search Appliance.



Google Mini is now half the original size and apparently 25x as powerful. It continues to provide a joint hardware/software solution for corporate search needs.



Google Search Appliance now features the OneBox for Enterprise, which displays relevant/current info from a variety of external and internal information sources for a given query. Additional enhancements for file crawling/indexing and user authentification seem very similar to the processes mentioned in the patent granted earlier today.

These new developments point to Google's increased interest in organizing corporate information as well as in maintaining a small, though very important hardware sector.