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Google's entry into enterprise search has positively impacted the search market, as evidenced by recent new entrants and double-digit revenue growth. Google has single-handedly raised awareness of search as a mission-critical tool for finding information spread across the Internet, corporate networks, and PCs. Google's appliances — including Google Mini and Google Search Appliance (GSA) — lack the breadth of packaged repository connectors, advanced features, and tunable security controls of higher-priced search engines, but they meet the needs of many organizations, as seen in the rapid growth of Google Enterprise. Traditionally viewed as a departmental search solution, GSA 4.6 is pushing its way up the enterprise search food chain with improvements to indexing capacity, query-processing speed, as well as better security and more advanced interoperability with third-party enterprise apps. Currently, GSA's best fit is in medium-scale corporate intranet scenarios in which companies do not intend to make extensive use of managed content, metadata, and structured data repositories for improving the search experience. The GSA will grow more relevant in complex search solutions as Google extends its partner program.

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