Google making a bigger splash into intranet search

With over 95% of their income comming from internet advertising some people are concerned that they will need to diversify their business model. Meet the new Google enterprise level search technology...

The new system is bigger, with more processing power and memory, allowing a single box to index up to 1.5 million documents and 300 queries per minute, fivefold increases over the earlier model, he said. The boxes cost between $32,000 and $175,000 each, depending on the configuration. ... In 2003, Google enterprise search accounted for $48 million, less than 5 percent of the company's sales, according to a securities filing. That's well behind longtime market player Verity, which racked up $121 million in sales last year. source: ZD Net.