Google Announces Availability of Next-Generation Corporate Search Appliance

New Google Search Appliance Delivers Greater Search Performance,
Fresher Content, and Enhanced Search Results Relevance

June 2, 2004 - Google Inc. today announced the availability of its next-generation Google Search Appliance, an integrated hardware/software search product that enables
corporations, universities, and government agencies to deliver
Google-quality search results on their intranets and public websites.

This latest version of the Google Search Appliance, available in
three models, is designed to offer better search performance,
including increased capacity for more than 300 queries per minute
and expanded collections that scale from 150,000 to 15 million or
more documents. In addition, the new Google Search Appliance
features a continuous crawl that is designed to automatically
maintain the freshness of document collections as they deliver
relevant results based on Google's latest search algorithms.

"Before implementing the Google Search Appliance, our search results
were mediocre at best," said Nathan Ahlstrom of Medtronic. "Since we
installed Google on our network, intranet traffic has grown
significantly as employees realize they can now quickly find what
they need. We're excited about the capabilities of the new appliance
as search becomes more important to our business."

First introduced in 2002, the Google Search Appliance delivers the
same relevance and easy to use search experience users are
accustomed to when using Google.com. It is available in three
models: the GB-1001, which can now index up to approximately 1.5
million documents (ideal for departments and mid-sized companies);
the GB-5005, that provides automatic fail-over designed to ensure
high uptime; and the GB-8008, designed for centralized deployments
supporting global business units.

The new features introduced today, available across the entire
product line, include:

- Greater performance: New hardware and software configurations
enable administrators to search more documents at a faster rate.
- Continuous crawl: A newly developed, sophisticated crawler
designed to scan document collections continuously to ensure fresh
intranet and website content is made searchable from the Google
Search Appliance index. This new crawler is designed to minimize
system demands by detecting and collecting only documents added or
modified since the index update. Administrators can also add pages
manually to ensure new information quickly appears in search
results.

- Improved relevance: The Google Search Appliance shares many of the
same search technologies developed, tested and refined for
Google.com. This latest version features Google's latest algorithms
and is designed to deliver the same quality of search results that
users receive when using Google.com.
- Expanded collections: Now administrators can set up and manage as
many collections as necessary, each of which can be customized,
managed, and displayed as an entirely separate search engine.

"The Google Search Appliance addresses a fundamental need for better
search in the enterprise," said Dave Girouard, general manager of
Google's enterprise business. "We deliver relevant Google search
results for users while lowering the cost and lessening the amount
of time required to manage search on intranets and consumer-facing
websites."

Since its debut, the Google Search Appliance has been adopted by
hundreds of leading aerospace, technology, broadcasting, retail,
government, and educational institutions that include Boeing,
National Semiconductor, U.S. Department of Education, Stanford
University, and USATODAY.com. Google Search Appliance customers
receive a complete package of hardware, software, and two years of
customer support, starting at $32,000. For more information, please
go to www.goebelgroup.com

About Google Inc.
Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way
people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search
and advertising have made its website a top Internet destination and
its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains
the world's largest online index of websites and other content, and
Google makes this information freely available to anyone with an
Internet connection. Google's automated search technology helps
people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from it
vast online index.