'Taking an unexpected jab right at Google's Enterprise Search Appliance, IBM and Yahoo! have teamed up to launch IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition, a free search solution that will index "up to 500,000 documents and over 200 file types in 30 different languages." '

'Google's appliances' bang to buck ratio suddenly doesn't look very healthy.'

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/12/13/ibm-and-yahoo-launch-free-enterprise-search-product/#comments

Granted you still have to pay for the hardware it shouldn't cost anything near $30,000. It should be interesting where Google heads from here.