Google Search Appliance

I'm this close to completing my company's new Drupal site, except when we moved it to the production server we started having issues with the Google Appliance module. I submitted an issue on the module's page, and am now waiting for the developer to help me. That being said -- as the days go by I'm increasingly uncomfortable with the level of dependence here. The site is ready to launch, people are waiting on it, and I have to wait until this developer decides to address my issue because the site is worthless without the search working.