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The Google Search Server

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-know-for-kids dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a reasonably indepth review of the Google search appliance. The guys from anandtech put it through it's paces, and included a variety of pictures and comments on one of those Google products most of us will probably never play with.

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  1. Google is Dead anyway by stecoop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft's Ballmer Threatened To 'Kill' Google

    1. Re:Google is Dead anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I'm going to bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to kill Google."
      - Steve Ballmer

      "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
      - Nikita Khrushchev

      Did Ballmer take off his shoe and start banging on the podium while he talked?

    2. Re:Google is Dead anyway by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I'm going to bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to kill Google."

      This should clearly tell you that Google is already undead, and keep rising again. He has already killed them before. Don't worry!

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    3. Re:Google is Dead anyway by c0n0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Remember he does things the M$ way...the kill() routine has a bug, that's why google is still alive.

  2. Re:AnandTech not very search optimization saavy by Moby+Cock · · Score: 2, Funny

    All of your points are valid. But you need to include countless digital photos to make sure that people think you know what it is you are talking about. Just like Anandtech.

  3. Re:Neat insides by op12 · · Score: 2, Funny

    4. Actually tested how the device performed doing its intended function? [Why would you want to do that?]

    Quit complaining, it's not like this was being called an indepth review.....oh, wait.

  4. subcontractors by hey · · Score: 1, Funny

    So Google subcontracted a company called GigaByte to make this box.
    I was disappointed to see GigaByte didn't use MegaByte to make some subcomponent.

    1. Re:subcontractors by schon · · Score: 2, Funny

      I was disappointed to see GigaByte didn't use MegaByte to make some subcomponent.

      Maybe he was too busy trying to take over Mainframe? :o)

  5. Re:Neat insides by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Actually tested how the device performed doing its intended function?

    You can do this yourself; try searching the Anandtech site. It's quick, and the results look like Google results.

  6. Oh come on by Black+Perl · · Score: 4, Funny

    First, it wasn't a review. They didn't review anything.

    Second, it was a Google Mini.

    Third, they didn't "put it through its paces" at all.

    Lousy article, misleading /. blurb. But it was about Google! Gooooooooogle!

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    1. Re:Oh come on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Okay Steve, Steve, Steve, you can put the chair down now.

  7. Free Google T-Shirt by nudeatom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats it, I gotta get me one of those just for the tee.

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  8. Re:Was this a review? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Microsoft search box comes with inbuilt Balmer power conduit!
    This revolutionary interface will fire off your search responses as accurately as a plastic chair bouncing around the room.

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  9. Try searching the site for "google mini" by openSoar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe it takes a while for the documents to be indexed but you'd think they would have added it manually given the nature of the article.

  10. Re:where's the raid? by horati0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did it strike anyone else as insane that this thing only had one hard drive? For $3,000, where's the raid array?

    Here.

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  11. Re:It's "its"! by dtmos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like a perfect vacuum, I believe nature abhors a grammar Nazi post without a grammatical error.

    Make that "It's "his", her", and "its".

    *sigh*

    --completed grammar Nazi mode. Resuming normal operation.

  12. From TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The screw is threaded - it just can't be undone with a regular screwdriver.

    Right.. Only unthreaded screws can be opened by a regular screwdriver.

  13. Where are the pigeons? by TeXMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought Google used pigeons ...

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    1. Re:Where are the pigeons? by Alias00 · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I thought Google used pigeons ..." They do! Why do you think they don't want people taking the covers off the servers? Plus, it does say in the manual that you're supposed to push seeds through the cooling vents every day.

  14. Re:Neat insides by MarkGriz · · Score: 2, Funny

    2. Tore the box apart wondering if we could finally find a flux capacitor [Check]

    I must say I'm disappointed that this is what Google passes off as a flux capacitor.

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  15. Carpetting by ukleafer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone else think the Anandtech server room has some lovely, lovely carpets?