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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. Integrate with Samba's smbclient? by mralert · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The documents crawled have to be web-accessible (http or https) according to the product description. This suprises me as the vast amount of company documents are probably on Windows file servers.

    Why not hook up with the Samba team to enable crawling on Windows shares? I think Samba-integration would be a killer feature for a product like this.

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  2. Re:Is Google moving out of their strength? by bdbolton · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My experience has been very disappointing with the google desktop search. I saved some files for a computer network class. I search for "computer network doc" and it found some word docs but not a computer network document. The standard search functionality of windows xp is better than this.

    It turns out that once I did find them, two of the documents were called "computer_networks1.doc" and "computer_networks_may.doc". Now how much more obvious could that be? I wonder why google didn't find them?

    Its funny too because I tell this to people and they think Im lying because google is just infaluble or something....

    And lately even web results seem to be less accurate. Is this just me? I really hope to see some real innovation in the basic search soon.

    BTW, bring back the old google groups!

  3. Re:Wow by zarr · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You just posted post number 11.349.404. This thing has a limit of 50.000 documents. Calculating the total price is left as an exersice for the reader. (Hint: NOT CHEAP!)

    Pluss, slashdot has about 800.000 registered users. Are we certain these boxes (meant for small to medium sized companies, remember) will handle the load?