Getcher Google Mini For A Mere Bag Of Shells
There’s a new Google Mini, and this one’s dirt-cheap. Price of a regular PC cheap. Cheap enough that rich folks could afford to buy one for their home network. How much? Just $1,995. That’s cheap enough that I want one. Well, actually, I would like to demo one…
For the confused: The Google Mini is a smaller version of the Google Search Appliance. You plug in the funky blue box into your systems, and you get the power of Google search for your website or your intranet.
Let’s put this in context. Here are the properties of my Google Desktop, which is still pretty fast (and probably even quite fragmented):
Total searchable items: 455.048
Emails: 4.136
Chats: 67.182
Web history: 112.799
Files: 270.931
It may be a single-user application, but still. I hope Google didn’t put in a hard limit on the number of items that the new Google Mini can index, if they don’t, it should still be a good idea to get one for smaller businesses. If they DO, however… It’s less laughable.
Either way, I’m using my computer intesively, so my index is big, and the Google Mini’s job is only to index content created BY the owner, so the spec still sounds pretty good. I wonder if they’re keeping the index in RAM? There is a real possibility that’ll fit, only it would probably be more expensive.
Comment by Tim | March 5, 2006