https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/25/google-brings-its-search-technology-to-the-enterprise/ > One of Google’s first hardware products was its search appliance, a custom-built server that allowed businesses to bring Google’s search tools to the data behind their firewalls. That appliance is no more, but Google today announced the spiritual successor to it with an update to Cloud Search. Until today, Cloud Search only indexed G Suite data. Now, it can pull in data from a wide variety of third-party services that can run on-premise or in the cloud, too, making the tool far more useful for large businesses that want to make all of their data searchable by their employees. > “We are essentially taking all of Google expertise in search and are applying it to your enterprise content,” Google said.