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Google Adds Cloud Access to Enterprise Search Appliance

Google, which is encouraging businesses to adopt its Google Apps productivity applications, is now making that cloud-based data more accessible for companies that also use its Search Appliance. Now, in addition to enabling intranet searches, the updated Search Appliance’s Cloud Connect will also pull in results from Google Docs, Google Sites and Twitter. The new version also adds People Search, which lists the company employees related to the search subject.

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It's a Free Country…

Does this sound familiar? At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging software, and the email system routinely badgers you to delete messages after you blow through the storage limits set by your IT department.

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Billionaire Entrepreneur Blamed in Death of Internet

“There is nothing ‘oh my god’ unique that has happened on the Net in forever. What we have seen are incremental applications that have been powered by the amazing ongoing drop in pricing of PCs, hard drives, memory and BACKBONE (not last mile) bandwidth. None of which are ‘the Internet.’ … It’s not the Net, [...]