SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2008 -- New Idea Engineering (http://www.ideaeng.com) announced it has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program, which extends the power of Google across the enterprise and helps customers get more value out of their Google enterprise deployments.

"It's an honor to join the Google Enterprise Professional Program," said Miles Kehoe, President & CEO of New Idea Engineering. "This is another exciting partnership for us: we are partners with all of the major search engine vendors, which allows us to act as consumer advocates and offer vendor independent advice. Both in our blog and our electronic newsletter NIE provides a free independent grassroots perspective. We encourage a strong customer experience and offer advice on how to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying enterprise search hardware and software."

The Google Enterprise Professional program includes developers, consultants and independent software vendors that provide value-added services for Google enterprise products.

"Google is excited to have New Idea Engineering as a partner in the Google Enterprise Professional program. We're looking forward to New Idea Engineering helping customers enhance the power of Google search with consulting, training, and company-specific assessments and benchmarks," said Brent VerWeyst, Search Partner Lead, Google Enterprise.

For more information on the Google Enterprise Professional program, please visit http://www.google.com/enterprise/gep.

About New Idea Engineering

New Idea Engineering (http://www.ideaeng.com) was founded in 1996 to provide vendor-neutral technical consulting, training, and programming to companies implementing enterprise search technologies.

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