Google introduces Google Mini

Veolus · 01-19-2005, 06:11 PM

Introducing the Google Mini

A Google search puts the Web’s information at your fingertips. The Google Mini does the same thing for your website or corporate intranet. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, the Google Mini is a hardware and software search appliance that offers your company the power and productivity of Google search.
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The Google Mini:

* Indexes and searches up to 50,000 documents.
* Works with more than 220 different file formats, including HTML, PDF, Microsoft Office and WordPerfect.
* Is easy to set up and requires minimal ongoing administration.
* Costs $4,995 for all hardware and software, including a year of support and hardware replacement coverage.

Just point the Google Mini at your content, add a search box to your website and you’re set. The Mini crawls your content and creates a master index of documents ready for instant retrieval whenever an employee or customer types in a search query. It's that simple to make your public website or intranet as easy to search as Google.com.
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http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/

The Equivocate · 01-19-2005, 06:16 PM

50,000 seems like a low number though, doesn't it?

jeter4982 · 01-19-2005, 06:24 PM

Ya, it does seem pretty low. I guess thats why its for small businesses. Imagine if these ever get cheap enough, to say a couple hundred bucks, so that they would be almost as common as servers.

majinbuu1023 · 01-19-2005, 07:56 PM

I don't get it..
what does it do exactly lol?

mediaspree · 01-19-2005, 08:39 PM

Itallows you, or your audience, to search your documents as you would with google. For instance, I work for an online real estate company. If we were to use google mini we could put a search box on our site and the user coudl type "3 bedroom 2 bath single family home near the beach" and it would return relevant properties. Very powerful for that sort of thing IMHO.

resellerlogic · 01-19-2005, 08:54 PM

Yeah it'd be great for sites like that. But the price is a little high at the moment.

armstrong · 01-19-2005, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by The Equivocate

50,000 seems like a low number though, doesn't it?

It is absurdly low. I have Google Desktop installed, and right now it tells me that I have:
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Number of items Time of newest item
Total searchable items 48,781 Jan 19
Emails 4,068 Aug 25
Chats 245 Jan 3
Web history 4,814 Jan 19
Files 39,654 Jan 19

That's just on one computer. How much more for an active company intranet?

deepstar · 01-20-2005, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by mediaspree

Itallows you, or your audience, to search your documents as you would with google. For instance, I work for an online real estate company. If we were to use google mini we could put a search box on our site and the user coudl type "3 bedroom 2 bath single family home near the beach" and it would return relevant properties. Very powerful for that sort of thing IMHO.

I think for that use it is not an affordable tool. You can easily build a search function to spider every single word and supply results within a site for very cheap. Furthermore, you can add www.atomz.com offers this for free if you dont want something customized and just to spider a site and return page results depending on the search query.

cfranklin · 01-21-2005, 04:27 PM

for larger needs ... http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html

resellerlogic · 01-21-2005, 05:19 PM

It's appliance for small business. Most Small Business won't have $5,000 to fork out for this.

Anthony · 01-24-2005, 01:46 AM

This is different from the Mac Mini, right?

resellerlogic · 01-24-2005, 02:48 PM

I've never even heard of a mac mini.

Nunim · 01-24-2005, 05:07 PM

50,000 would be ok for searching, something like legal documents for a law firm or something, it doesn't say you can't have 50 page documents.

jroy · 01-24-2005, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by armstrong

Number of items Time of newest item
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=65839
Total searchable items 48,781 Jan 19
Emails 4,068 Aug 25
Chats 245 Jan 3
Web history 4,814 Jan 19
Files 39,654 Jan 19

I am beating you, lol:

Number of items Time of newest item
Total searchable items 53,633 8:25pm
Emails 62 Jan 16
Chats 15,994 8:00pm
Web history 4,699 8:25pm
Files 32,878 Jan 21

I guess i talk too much

lol its odd though, when I do virus scans it says i have 455,000 files on my pc

inspiration100 · 01-24-2005, 10:25 PM

Costs $4,995 for all hardware and software, including a year of support and hardware replacement coverage. OMG, crazy!

resellerlogic · 01-25-2005, 06:56 AM

Well the Desktop search is pretty handy especially if you have a big harddrive and alot of files on your computer and can't remember where you put something.

painperdu · 01-25-2005, 12:49 PM

They're selling thier brand name -nothing special.

Google excels at searching unstructured documents like that found on the internet. Intranet and corporate networks usually contain very structured documents and can get by with simple search engines like the free http://search.mnogo.ru/

majinbuu1023 · 02-07-2005, 07:52 PM

its pretty cool..I would never be able to afford it though...maybe get te code from another site

kw31 · 02-28-2005, 12:46 PM

Why do I have a feeling I'll be using a Gbrowser soon in the future

CSN2001 · 03-07-2005, 01:33 AM

to expensive

promonde · 03-07-2005, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by CSN2001

to expensive

Agree...

CSN2001 · 03-07-2005, 02:20 AM

Lower price sells more

trishan · 03-07-2005, 02:48 AM

Agree that the pricing is well too high.

LeeRyder · 03-07-2005, 03:26 AM

wow..E107 has this search function built in.

and it's a free cms lol.

BuLLDoG · 03-07-2005, 08:32 AM

yeh I agree with what someone has already said in this post, if their target market is small businesses how they hell would they afford this, or why would they want it with only 50,000. Although these would be very useful maybe the price needs a drop dramaticly.

Ha yes mac mini's are cool I want one!

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resellerlogic NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 589	It's appliance for small business. Most Small Business won't have $5,000 to fork out for this. __________________ Earn up to $2.20 Per 1000 Image Views at http://www.imagepad.us

01-19-2005, 06:24 PM	#3 (permalink)
jeter4982 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: CT, USA Posts: 3,309	Ya, it does seem pretty low. I guess thats why its for small businesses. Imagine if these ever get cheap enough, to say a couple hundred bucks, so that they would be almost as common as servers.

01-19-2005, 07:56 PM	#4 (permalink)
majinbuu1023 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 3,747	I don't get it.. what does it do exactly lol?

01-21-2005, 04:27 PM	#9 (permalink)
cfranklin NamePros Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: seven 5 seven Posts: 163	for larger needs ... http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html

01-24-2005, 01:46 AM	#11 (permalink)
Anthony NamePros Expert Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: NYC Posts: 9,134	This is different from the Mac Mini, right?

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01-24-2005, 05:07 PM	#13 (permalink)
Nunim NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 384	50,000 would be ok for searching, something like legal documents for a law firm or something, it doesn't say you can't have 50 page documents.

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resellerlogic NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 589	Well the Desktop search is pretty handy especially if you have a big harddrive and alot of files on your computer and can't remember where you put something. __________________ Earn up to $2.20 Per 1000 Image Views at http://www.imagepad.us

01-25-2005, 12:49 PM	#17 (permalink)
painperdu NamePros Regular Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Louisiana, USA Posts: 658	They're selling thier brand name -nothing special. Google excels at searching unstructured documents like that found on the internet. Intranet and corporate networks usually contain very structured documents and can get by with simple search engines like the free http://search.mnogo.ru/ __________________ dotbob.com -Cheap Domain Name Registrations/Unlimited Web Hosting Plan $5.98/month

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03-07-2005, 01:33 AM	#20 (permalink)
CSN2001 NamePros Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 169	to expensive

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CSN2001 NamePros Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 169	Lower price sells more

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BuLLDoG NamePros Regular Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: England Posts: 931	yeh I agree with what someone has already said in this post, if their target market is small businesses how they hell would they afford this, or why would they want it with only 50,000. Although these would be very useful maybe the price needs a drop dramaticly. Ha yes mac mini's are cool I want one! __________________ Free iPhone

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