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The Google Mini delivers results, in both intranet and public site deployments. New features allow you to search on various enterprise data sources -- all from the same search box. These new features, as well as the inclusion of Google Analytics and Google Sitemaps functionality, make the Mini the perfect solution for your public website.

Learn how the Mini can help empower end users, administrators and business owners with search as effective as Google.com. Also check out the Google Mini Datasheet [pdf].


What's New Snapshot

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OneBox for Enterprise [pdf]New!
Provide users with easy access to an infinite variety of information sources from inside or outside the company – right from the search box. Google OneBox for Enterprise provides access to up-to-the-minute information across virtually all enterprise applications and services -- including information stored in Cognos, Cisco, Employease, Netsuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAS systems. Learn more about this new approach to accessing business information.

Integrate with document security systems New!
The Mini can crawl and serve search results for sites protected by HTTP Basic and NTLM v1 and v2 security and can integrate with your LDAP system. The new Mini release enables both authentication and authorization at serve time, so you can make sure individual users see only the results they have clearance to access. If you require integration with other security systems, including single sign-on systems, you should consider the Google Search Appliance.

Additional reporting New!
Easily access more detailed reports on what the Mini's crawler has indexed and will index, as well as errors that the Mini found when crawling. Also see what users are searching for on your site.

Auto-generate a sitemap for Google.com's crawler New!
The Google Mini can automatically build a sitemap you can submit to Google Webmaster Tools so that Google.com can discover and crawl your public website's content.

Google Analytics Integration New!
Understand how visitors are using your public website, and improve the effectiveness of your search results.


End Users

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Google search quality
We've taken Google web search and optimized it for use on public websites and corporate networks to deliver relevant search results at record speed.

Familiarity breeds contentment
By providing the same familiar look and feel as Google.com, the Google Mini offers a search solution that your users can actually use. You can weave Google into your site design either by giving the Google Mini interface a “mini” makeover, using a built-in wizard interface, or by doing a full facelift via the Mini's XML feed.

Helping users work smarter
The Google Mini's productivity-enhancing extras include a self-learning spell checker, the ability to view documents in HTML (instead of having to download plug-ins), and accessing cached versions of documents - even the ones that are offline.

Search across all your content - even email
The Google Mini's integration with Google Desktop for Enterprise makes it easy for users to find documents on their computers, your intranet and the Internet via a single search interface. And with Google Toolbar for Enterprise you can have a search box tied to the Google Mini right in your browser.

Number Range Search
Restrict search results by a number range - makes it easy for users to restrict by price range or any other numerical value. For example, when comparison shopping for digital cameras using a Mini, search for "digital cameras $200-$250."

Date Range Search
Enables users to restrict search results to a particular date range. For example, when searching for Honda Accords, search for "Honda Accords 2003-2005."

See a more detailed list of End User features


Administrators

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Insight into user search behavior
The Google Mini is more than a great search experience. It helps you improve your site's usability by generating reports on page errors and broken links, and captures your organization's zeitgeist by providing reports on search-term frequency that you can use to identify your users' hot-button issues. Integration with Google Analytics makes it easy to add tracking code to your search results pages.

Unlimited collections and front ends
Power search across multiple sites with increased security and control over the user interface of each site.

Plug-and-play productivity
As a seamlessly integrated hardware and software solution, the Google Mini requires no additional components or tinkering to get started. The initial configuration is so streamlined that you should be able to complete it in as little as a half-hour. The Mini will find content on your file servers and websites, and provide a Google interface that everyone in your company is familiar with.

No document tagging or customization required
Google believes the technology, not the site administrator, should do the heavy lifting. To that end, the Mini's search relevance technology automatically considers over 100 different factors when determining search results, eliminating the need for costly and confusing manual search customization. The Mini can automatically detect sections of your site that change and crawl them more frequently, or you can schedule the Mini to crawl across all of your content on a recurring basis.

Minimal ongoing administration
Once configured, the Google Mini can be set to intelligently crawl your content as data changes, using its continuous crawl feature, or you can set it to index content on an ongoing basis. But if you need to make any changes or feel like checking in while away, the Mini's web-based interface gives you full remote access to all administrator functionality – even if you're away on vacation in a tropical paradise.

See a more detailed list of Administrator features


Business Owners

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Search leadership
Google is recognized as the global leader in innovative search technology. We invest more in search research and development than any other company, and we're known for standing by our products and customers. At Google, we're committed to constantly wowing you. That's because we want to be your best search partner, now and in the future.

Low cost
The Google Mini delivers phenomenal price-performance value. In addition to all hardware and software, the Mini also includes two years of support and hardware replacement coverage. The Mini comes in four versions that enable you to search up to:

  • 50,000 documents for $2,990
  • 100,000 documents for $3,990
  • 200,000 documents for $6,990
  • 300,000 documents for $9,990

And the responsiveness of Google's support team will help you keep a lid on internal IT costs.

Immediate ROI
The Google Mini's combination of plug-and-play installation and familiar user interface means your organization will start realizing the benefits of Google search about as soon as you get it out of the box.