System Requirements for the Google Search Appliance virtual edition

Google Search Appliance virtual edition for developers

The Google Search Appliance virtual edition provides a free test bed for the Google Search Appliance - a solution for securely searching enterprise content behind the corporate firewall - helping ensure a smooth transition to the production-ready hardware. If your organization is considering adopting an enterprise search solution, the virtual edition platform gives your team the flexibility to build applications against the Google Search Appliance, try different configuration scenarios, explore proofs-of-concept and test the APIs supported by Google enterprise search technology. As part of testing with the virtual edition, you can:

• Index up to 50,000 documents
• Use the Connector Framework to index proprietary document repositories
• Use the Feed API and metadata search to index information with unique formats
• Use Onebox to retrieve information from real-time services
• Take the authentication and secure search capabilities for a test drive
• Customize the search results page, or extract it in XML format for use on another web site

Google Announced Their Search Appliance virtual edition for developers

Google announced the Virtual Edition of the Search Appliance today. This virtual edition is only for the uses in Non Commercial and Development and the developers can test against the features of the Google Search Appliance too.

This virtual edition is a platform for developers and designed for the enterprise development community for building and testing of the applications that the Google Search Appliance uses.

Use only single box and search 10 million documents this may be done by the news google search appliance and it also do the personalize search for the users.

Google announced it on their Google Code Blog:

If you’re an IT administrator, you’ll have that chance with the new virtual edition of the Google Search Appliance. The Google Search Appliance virtual edition is for non-commercial, development purposes only, and gives developers the opportunity to test against the features of the physical Google Search Appliance.

System Requirements for the Google Search Appliance virtual edition

The following system resources are required:

1. Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 2.80 Ghz with HT or equivalent
2. 3 GB of RAM
3. 40 GB of free space on hard disk
4. Ethernet connection

In the testing of the Virtual edition you can index 50,000 documents, you can use the Connector Framework to index proprietary document repositories, you can use the Feed API and metadata search to index information with unique formats, you can use onebox to retrieve information from real-time services, you can take the authentication and secure search capabilities for a test drive and you can customize the search results page, or extract it in XML format for use on another web site

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