inside the google search appliance.
The Google Search appliance
is on sale since quite some times. It basically "outsources" the google
search engine to company intranets, web portals etc. Without the high
level of adjustment a closed source site search engine would offer, it
delivers fast and relevant results, almost the same way as the mother
engine. Main issues with it seem to be in the level of customization,
and the fact that worldwide relevance criterias do not always apply to
intranets (especially in cases where documents inter-linking is not
very well applied).
Anandtech recently reviewed google's mini search appliance, which at the moment costs 2,995$. What is interesting is how paranoid google behaves about these search solutions. Although this might have already happened, google obviously fears that some advanced hackers would buy this solution, disassemble it piece by piece both hardware and software, and outsource it.
Anandtech recently reviewed google's mini search appliance, which at the moment costs 2,995$. What is interesting is how paranoid google behaves about these search solutions. Although this might have already happened, google obviously fears that some advanced hackers would buy this solution, disassemble it piece by piece both hardware and software, and outsource it.
