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Several options should be considered when selecting a high-quality search solution. Hosted solutions, including Google Site Search, provide Software as a Service (SaaS) search, an alternative that is cost-effective because there is no need to deploy hardware and software locally, and because set-up takes only minutes. In addition, hosted solutions are housed in globally-distributed data centers, optimizing the efficiency of data management and energy consumption – both of which translate to lower costs. Hosted solutions can be customized to any organization’s branding requirements and easily linked to existing websites. On-demand indexing allows organizations to get pages indexed quickly, further lowering the barriers to entry. This option is ideal for organizations with limited IT resources, or who don’t want to increase the levels of hardware that they install and maintain in-house, but that still want to enable users to search a website using powerful Google search engine technologies.

Depending on specific search needs, organizations can also elect to use a plug-andplay search appliance – the Google Search Appliance – that is deployed on premise, yet minimizes burden on IT staff.