A year after introducing its Mini Search Appliance for business, Google is introducing two new, higher-capacity systems designed to meet the growing demand to search for documents inside businesses.
Google is now offering three Google “Mini” search appliances, used by small to mid-sized companies, including systems that can find up to 200,000 internal documents that sells for $5,995, and a 300,000 document search appliance selling for $8,995.

The two new devices work like the existing Google Mini search appliance introduced a year ago, which has the capacity to search 100,000 documents and sells for $2,995.

For big businesses and government organizations, the company also offers the Google Search Appliance starting at around $30,000 and running up to $600,000 per appliance for far higher capacity search systems.

Search appliances are expected to generate upward of $900 million in sales during 2005, search analyst Sue Feldman of IDC of Framingham, Massachusetts estimated.

Search appliances represent a tiny fraction of Google revenues. Roughly 99 percent of the company‘s revenue comes from sales of advertising along Web search results.