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Looks fun reminds me of Google Desktop search from way back in the day - you know back in the days of google also selling a search appliance for enterprise data
by mooreed 4y ago
Looks fun reminds me of Google Desktop search from way back in the day - you know back in the days of google also selling a search appliance for enterprise data centers.
- connordoner 4y agoLol… “Did you mean ‘the cloud’?”
- Jaruzel 4y agoNo, they didn't. Back in the day Google sold 'Google-In-A-Box' which was a rack mounted hardware device that you installed into your company's server rack (either on-prem or in a hosted data centre) and once configured it crawled all your internal resources and presented an internal search engine with all the power of Google search. Although a good idea in principle, I found it cumbersome to configure and it only (at the time) supported ftp and http based resources - if your company made heavy use of Windows file shares you couldn't index them without also serving them over ftp or http. I believe later versions improved on that though, but by then it was a dead product, and Google discontinued it.
- connordoner 4y agoNo, I know — I remember the CSA well. It was a play on words on Google’s “Did you mean?” functionality.
- Jaruzel 4y agoAha. :D