This one is nothing new. Google has had it for ages. But I thought more people should know about it. And I seriously doubt if any other company has anything that come close.
When we think of searching we normally associate it with webservers and software. But trust the guys at Google to change your point of view. They come up with a search "appliance". And it is exactly that. It requires just a power connection and a ethernet port to start working. Configuration is of course web-based. So the admin can do it over the internet. It caches search results locally, but you can schedule crawls at specfic intervals to update the indices.
There are two flavours of the product. One is the Cute-looking Google Mini and the Other is the industry strength Google Search Appliance(GSA). The mini costs around $2000 and can search upto 100,000 documents. The GSA has multiple models ranging from the GB-1001 which can search up to 1.5 million documents at a rate of 300 queries per minute, to the GB-8008 that can search up to 15 million documents.
For pics and more information got to @http://www.google.com/enterprise/
When we think of searching we normally associate it with webservers and software. But trust the guys at Google to change your point of view. They come up with a search "appliance". And it is exactly that. It requires just a power connection and a ethernet port to start working. Configuration is of course web-based. So the admin can do it over the internet. It caches search results locally, but you can schedule crawls at specfic intervals to update the indices.
There are two flavours of the product. One is the Cute-looking Google Mini and the Other is the industry strength Google Search Appliance(GSA). The mini costs around $2000 and can search upto 100,000 documents. The GSA has multiple models ranging from the GB-1001 which can search up to 1.5 million documents at a rate of 300 queries per minute, to the GB-8008 that can search up to 15 million documents.
For pics and more information got to @http://www.google.com/enterprise/
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