Google Inc. today unveiled a new high-end Google Search Appliance (GSA) with a revamped software architecture designed to lift its indexing capacity to billions of documents.

The new appliance, the GB-9009, can index up to 30 million documents, according to Google. Its minimum capacity is 15 million documents.

Google sells the Search Appliance as a hardware box bundled with enterprise search software designed to let companies index and retrieve data stored in their corporate systems, such as applications, document management tools, databases, Web servers and files. The upgraded Version 6.0 of the GSA software is based technology the company uses in its Web search engines, including Google.com.

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