Dell Takes Over Google Search Appliance

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Google has handed over production of the Google Search Appliance, its only real hardware product, to Dell. The Search Appliance, which attaches to corporate networks to enable Google-powered internal search, has been a pretty good product for Google, but didn’t fit with the fact that the company had little experience with hardware, and was too expensive compared with similar products (including free software from Yahoo).
Dell’s advertising this move as a partnership with Google, saying “If we could help Google, we can help your business”:

With Dell taking over, a company with more expertise in manufacturing can handle that end, while Google does what it does best, and handle the software side of things. Dell can market the search appliance along with its server products, which probably makes it a better sale than from Google’s own website. Google could use the help, since by its own […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg