The Google Search Appliance and its younger sibling, the Google Mini, share a number of features, but also differ in a few ways.
The main difference between the Google Mini and the Google Search Appliance is that the Search Appliance has the ability to crawl more documents than the Google Mini.
Intranet vs. Extranet Searching
If you only need search for a small public internet website up to 300,000 documents, the Google Mini may be the right fit for you. The Google Search Appliance has more robust authorization and authentication features that make it ideal for crawling intranet data where single sign-on and other advanced authentication is required.
| Feature | Google Mini | GB-1001 | GB-5005 | GB-8008 |
| Price | $1,995-$8,995 | $30,000 and up | Contact us for pricing | Contact us for pricing |
| Number of Documents | 50,000 to 300,000 | 500,000 to 3 million | Up to 10 million | Up to 30 million |
| Google Support | 1 year | 2 years | 2 years | 2 years |
| Index Intranet Sites | x | x | x | x |
| Index Web Content | x | x | x | x |
| Index Database Content Directly | x | x | x | |
| 220+ content formats | x | x | x | x |
| Unlimited Collections | x | x | x | x |
| Unlimited FrontEnds | x | x | x | x |
| Keymatches, Synonyms | x | x | x | x |
| Multi-Language Administration | x | x | x | x |
| Advanced Security Options | x | x | x | |
| Google OneBox Integration | x | x | x | |
| Integrate with Content Management System | x | x | x | |
| Query Expansion(automated stemming and synonyms) | x | x | x | |
| Index 3rd party content and feeds | x | x | x | |
| SNMP Monitoring | x | x | x | |
| Raid disks | x | x | x | |
| Clustered redundancy | x | x | x |
