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Google's Search Appliance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-kinda-clever dept.

An anonymous reader noted that Google is working on a Search Engine that you can install behind your corporate firewall for indexing your internal documents. It's a bit thin on information, but it looks like for as little (cough) as $20k, you can have your own google box. Not for everyone obviously ;)

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  1. Google has betrayed the Open-Source Community by duffbeer703 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If the management of Google were truly enlightened OpenSource evangelists, they would have given away the software for free. Google has built it's success on the back of Free Software developers, to the point that it should be called GNU/Google. Using Free and Liberated software to create a commercial monster is offensive and wrong.

    I demand that Google allow Jesse Jackson, ESR and RMS on-site to persuade Google to go GPL and to investigate alleged GPL violations.

    In addition, I call for the formation of the GNUggle project, an entirely Free search engine that runs of GNU/Hurd systems only.

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    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK