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| An internet surfer views the Google home page. Google has launched a tool that will help companies search for information stored in their computers for a fee as the tech giant seeks to diversify its revenues away from advertising |
Google Wednesday launched a tool that will help companies search for information stored in their computers for a fee as the tech giant seeks to diversify its revenues away from advertising.
The Google Search Appliance (GSA) is a mounted device, providing document indexing service that enables firms retrieve information stored in different locations such as desktops, intranets or archive servers.
Users will pay between Sh4.3 million ($50,000) and Sh5.2 million ($60,000) for the device and a three-year subscription fees depending on the size of an organisation and the amount of data on its networks.
This is one of the few products that Google will be selling in Kenya where it has relied on advertising revenues from commercial items posted on its sites.
While it has been easy to search for information online through the Google search engine, corporates are finding it difficult to retrieve data and information stored in their internal systems and not in the web, a gap that Google intends to plug with GSA.
“The GSA is a scalable hardware solution that offers a Google-like search for your organisations internal file shares, databases, content management and ERP systems and other internal data as well as for your public website,” said Shai Morgan, Google’s regional manager for emerging markets at the Nairobi launch.
“Firms that wish to use our enterprise solutions such as the GSA will have to pay annual subscription fees.”
Google has been offering the service in the developed markets where it was launched in 2008 and in the Middle East. Kenya is the first market to have the device in Africa and Google plans to introduce to other markets.
Kenya has been the headquarters of Google’s sub-Saharan business covering operations in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda.
In Kenya, Google has partnered with e-momentum to integrate the solution to organisations’ networks and offer support maintenance service.
IN SUMMARY
- The Google Search Appliance (GSA) is a mounted device, providing document indexing service that enables firms retrieve information stored in different locations such as desktops, intranets or archive servers.
- Users will pay between Sh4.3 million ($50,000) and Sh5.2 million ($60,000) for the device and a three-year subscription fees depending on the size of an organisation and the amount of data on its networks.
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