Some of you will recall I said in the summer that Oxford had a Google Search Appliance on trial. The report of our evaluation is at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oucsweb/google.xml for your delectation. Simple summary: nice box, but not doing precisely what we want off the shelf, so no go. In an institution with more centralized control and financing, it may well be the right choice. Sebastian Rahtz