Google binning its search appliance hardware business Google looks like it has binned its search appliances. Appliances were Google's first attempt to create an enterprise business and debuted way back in 2002, when the idea of a server dedicated to indexing content and providing a web search experence behind the firewall sounded like a grand idea. Innumerable advances in storage …
Ah yeah.. which means if they index your company data they have access to it. Which presents some interesting issues (for some value of interesting) such as a health insurance company which is using the search appliance for documentation. All that personal info is Google's. Same for any other company. Customer info, business info...
This is scarier than letting the NSA index it for you.
2002 - So you want to make all that sensitive corporate information searchable on your Intranet? Get a GSA, it's cheaper and for 'web' searching better than IDOL.
2016 - So you want to make all that sensitive corporate information searchable on your Intranet? Going to have to be IDOL, it's more expensive and not as good for 'web' searching as Google's cloud service but you control it and there's no "all of your data now belongs to us" hidden away in the T&Cs.
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