Sunday 30 July, 2006

Joel gets a free Google Appliance

Filed under: Tech. stuff
For those not aware of their work, the Google Appliance is basically a Google-in-a-box that you can configure to index your own site and link to your own search button. You can define very granular rules for both spidering/indexing and intervention (e.g. spell-check, recommended links) and essentially, it does the rest for you. You can also create a nice stylesheet to render your results.

They start at $30,000, allowing you to index up to 500,000 pages. And they're yellow; bright yellow.

I remember watching a talk by John Battelle to Google employees on my iPod Video a few months back. At the end of the talk, one Google employee asked how she might spread the word on the Google App. John's response was to give one or two to some high-profile web users, suggesting 'that guy from Fog Creek'. Hey presto, one turns up on Spolksy's doorstep. I wish he'd mentioned my name instead; or else Rob's.


Posted by dan at 8:21am | Permalink | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)
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Hey, I'm sure the cheapest Google Appliance that indexes 500,000 pages is far less than $30,000. More like $5000! It's the unlimited page indexing one that is $30,000.

Posted by Paul Feakins 7:18pm, Tuesday 1 August 2006

Not according to their website, Paul:

http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/product_models.html

Dan.

Posted by Dan 3:14am, Thursday 3 August 2006

Ah, I was thinking of the Google Mini:

'The Mini now comes in multiple versions. The most affordable Mini searches up to 50,000 documents for $1,995'

Looks like I missed a zero but I knew they did something like that as I had to include its price in a quote for a client.

Paul.
www.paulfeakins.co.uk

Posted by Paul Feakins 9:17am, Thursday 3 August 2006
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