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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. 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.

  4. 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.

    --LWM