The GSA contained Google search technologies and a means of configuring and customizing the appliance. See more

The GSA was first introduced in 2002.
Software version 6.0 was released in June, 2009. This software ran on some hardware versions of the GB-1001 model (all units with an "S5" prefix in … See more

The GSA could be purchased in two separate versions based on the number of documents being indexed. Model G100, a 2U appliance, could index up to 20,000,000 documents. The G500 5U appliance could index up to 100,000,000 documents. See more

Older appliances
Google sold a 2U appliance (GB-1001) capable of indexing up to 5 million documents, a half-rack cluster (GB-5005) of five 2U nodes capable of indexing up to 10 million documents, and a full-rack cluster (GB-8008) … See more

Early in February 2016, Google sent a confidential letter to its business partners and customers, stating that the GSA would not be available past 2018. It began with the discontinuation of GSA three-year contracts in 2016; in 2017 there would be only one-year … See more

• Review Archived 2021-04-11 at the Wayback Machine at SearchTools Analysis
• InfoWorld Review of Google Search Appliance, ISYS:web 8
• Online Example Archived 2020-10-28 at the Wayback Machine of a Google Search Appliance at MIT was … See more