competition - Re: rackmount lucene/nutch - Re: google mini? who needs it when Lucene is there

[David Spencer <da...@tropo.com>]

I wasn't sure where in this thread to reply so I'm replying to myself :)

What search appliances exist now?

I only found 3:

	[1] Google

	[2] Thunderstone 		
	http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/pages/Appliance.html

	[3] IndexEngines (not out yet)
	http://www.indexengines.com/



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Also, out of curiosity, do people have appliance h/w vendors they like?

These guys seem like they have nice options for pretty colors:

	http://www.mbx.com/oem/index.cfm
	http://www.mbx.com/oem/options/




David Spencer wrote:

> This reminds me, has anyone every discussed something similar:
> 
> - rackmount server ( or for coolness factor, that mini mac)
> - web i/f for config/control
> 
> - of course the server would have the following s/w:
> -- web server
> -- lucene / nutch
> 
> Part of the work here I think is having a decent web i/f to configure 
> the thing and to customize the L&F of the search results.
> 
> 
> 
> jian chen wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was searching using google and just found that there was a new
>> feature called "google mini". Initially I thought it was another free
>> service for small companies. Then I realized that it costs quite some
>> money ($4,995) for the hardware and software. (I guess the proprietary
>> software costs a whole lot more than actual hardware.)
>>
>> The "nice" feature is that, you can only index up to 50,000 documents
>> with this price. If you need to index more, sorry, send in the
>> check...
>>
>> It seems to me that any small biz will be ripped off if they install
>> this google mini thing, compared to using Lucene to implement a easy
>> to use search software, which could search up to whatever number of
>> documents you could image.
>>
>> I hope the lucene project could get exposed more to the enterprise so
>> that people know that they have not only cheaper but more importantly,
>> BETTER alternatives.
>>
>> Jian
>>
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