Irish Government and the Google Search Appliance: Value for money
– posted March 2nd, 2007 by Laurence Veale No comments
A recent snippet from Global e-government (1 March) on enn.ie mentioned that the Aussie government have just dropped 1.34 million euro (AU$2.25 million) on implementing enterprise search across all government agencies. We think they’ve spent far too much. Here’s why.
According to enn,
Australia finds search solution: The Australian government has awarded a contract for the provision of search engine technology to Canberra-based search specialist Funnelback. The two-year deal, which will be worth AUD2.25 million if the Government exercises an option to extend the contract for a third year, will see Funnelback’s search technology made available to all government agencies for use on their websites. A search tool powered by Funnelback is also already available on the Government’s main website, www.australia.gov.au. Funnelback said that its search service will crawl and index all government websites each weeknight to make sure new content is included when users perform searches.
“Funnelback search engine technology… was developed in Australia and provides users with fast, comprehensive and up-to-date access to government information and services,” said Special Minister of State Gary Nairn.
Google Search Appliance: Delivering real value for the Irish Government
You may have heard that we recently worked on a similar search project for the Irish Government. The Irish government, when selecting iQ Content for our Google Search Appliance services, spent roughly 10 times less. In fact, the Google Search Appliance starts off at the relatively paltry sum of 30,000 euro.
So with all the current talk of “rip-off Ireland”, it’s great to be a part of a genuine Irish government success story. Compared to Australia, we’ve helped save you (and us), the taxpayers, quite a few shekels.
Related iQ news and blog posts on the Google Search Appliance
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- Google Search Appliance wins an oscar
- ENN scoops the GSA (Google Search Appliance) on search.gov.ie
- Speaking your users’ language with the Google Search Appliance
- Speaking your users’ language with the Google Search Appliance
- Google Search Appliance Tip - Searching Multiple Collections
- Keeping the Google logo with your Google Search Appliance: A good idea?
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