Google search appliance?
 

Has anyone ever spotted one of these being sold off from closed companies?
I'm developing an interest in their new mini, but thought that maybe the older models might be making it to the secondary market by now.

I checked Ebay, but no go.

Have you used one in your data managment and searching? Does it perform well when searching hundreds of office and wordperfect documents, or are the result times for searches only based off of html formated data?
There doesn't seem to be much on google that explains how these work and why.

Is this the type of thing that would never come on the open market perhaps? :confused:

I had a WebEx session with Google the other day regarding the Mini Search Appliance they just released. It looks quite interesting to me. I have no need to sift through up to 15 million documents like the larger ones can do, but the Mini seems like it might be a nice little addition to my server rack.

If you go look on the Appliance's page, they have dates they are doing the free WebEx sessions, and I would suggest sitting in on that if you're interested.

I have not had any experience with one thus far, but if the search technology is the same as Google.com, then I think of no bad things that could come from it.