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Google Announces 'Mini' Search Appliance

Posted by michael on from the feeling-lucky dept.

demetrio writes "In an effort to cater to small business search needs, Google has announced a new search appliance dubbed the 'Mini'. Priced at $5,000, well below the starting price of $32,000 for its other appliances, the 'Mini' should help smaller businesses leverage Google's search expertise at an affordable price."

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  1. Re:so by def · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pagerank isn't secret, its patented.

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  2. Re:Onl 50,000 documents for $5,000? by MrP-(at+work) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you read the /. Blurb, or the article, or the homepage for the product, you'll see its not targeted at large corperations, this is for small/medium buisness owners.

    For large corperations, you can purchase the The Google Search Appliance , which can index 15 million documents

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  3. Re:Just use Site Search? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I imagine most companies use it to search the documents on their intranet instead of the internet.

  4. Re:Just use Site Search? by grub · · Score: 2, Informative


    If your intranet has proprietary or secret information you wouldn't want to open it up to google's internet search. Why let your competition search your online info? You wouldn't give them access to your filing cabinets.

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  5. We have a GB-1001 by homeslice3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    We use it on our Intranet at a small goverment agency and it's made a huge difference for us - so I'm a big fan. It's easy to manage too.

    I'm not sure however, what niche this product is filling - the box we have allows us to have unlimited subcollections so all of our smaller units can setup their own searches very easily - we just pass which collection we want to hit, and then get some xml back from the box.

    So all of our little sub-offices and depts won't ever need their own box.

  6. Re:Affordable ? by lilmouse · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is quite affordable even for a company with 20 employees! $5k? A drop in the bucket, if you're shelling out an average of $80K for programmers annually.

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