Google sponsored a great lunch (chicken, potatoes and salad), the Google Enterprise team talked about what it does.

Showed a couple of videos:
– the enterprise search appliance (just add nothing). Tony Byrne from CMS Watch is sitting next to me, and what he said to that I can’t write on this blog post.
– another video about the Google search appliance. Offers personalized search, alerts for users, multilingual support, secure search results (security trimming), 220 file type indexing, records in databases. Can also use the Content Framework Connector to connect to other systems, including Documentum, Open Text and SharePoint (Tony chips in, “the SharePoint part is not true. They can’t do that.”) Supports 10 million documents in a single box.

Google says its customers love what they offer via the Google Search Appliance, eg, Kimberly-Clark. Can now search many more documents (22 million), and have the same great performance that they had with 500,000 documents. Eg2, Honeywell.

Five questions, for the chance to win an iPhone.

Mmm … there’s no such thing as a free lunch, indeed. Seriously, I can’t believe lunch had a keynote speech. Doesn’t that destroy the idea of search and discovery of great people to interact with???