SearchMax

With Google Custom Search Business Edition, website owners can put a Google search box on your website - and let visitors access search results from any website or websites that you choose. Google price : $100 per year for up to 5,000 web pages and $500 per year up to 50,000 web pages or documents. This is good for companies who do not want to purchase a Google Mini or Google Search Appliance.

This is great for small compaines or for companies with websites that are not updated often.

• Increase conversion rates by helping visitors find the products they want, and guiding them to the products you want to sell.
• Improve usability and reduce support inquiries by allowing users to help themselves.

No hardware or software installations are required to use Custom Search Business Edition. To add a search engine to your website, complete the short setup wizard and then copy and paste a snippet of code into your site. Once your search engine is added to your website it can be modified with a search engine’s control panel. Google also offers reporting.

SingleView is built on top of Microsoft’s SharePoint 2007 collaboration portal and is already being used by dozens of large enterprise customers, according to BearingPoint.

SingleView augments SharePoint through a series of data “connectors” that enable SharePoint to act as a master search index for all kinds of enterprise data, including data that isn’t stored on any Microsoft-related servers such as Oracle databases, document management archives, SAP and other CRM (customer relationship management) repositories, e-mails and other sources of information. Ready compete with Google Search Appliance.

Google Inc. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. Postini’s services — which include message security, archiving, encryption, and policy enforcement — can be used to protect a company’s email, instant messaging, and other web-based communications. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will acquire Postini for $625 million in cash, subject to working capital and other adjustments, and Postini will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of the third quarter 2007.”With this transaction, we’re reinforcing our commitment to delivering compelling hosted applications to businesses of all sizes. With the addition of Postini, our apps are not just simple and appealing to users — they can also streamline the complex information security mandates within these organizations,” said Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Google.