Google Announced Their Search Appliance virtual edition for developers

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