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The Google Search Appliance was available from 2002 to 2019, which is a pretty decent run for a piece of IT hardware. Especially given that the average office
by teractiveodular 2y ago
The Google Search Appliance was available from 2002 to 2019, which is a pretty decent run for a piece of IT hardware. Especially given that the average office environment looked quite different in 2002: the GSA was designed for indexing intranets (remember those?) and did not require any Internet connectivity at all.
- tjpnz 2y ago>the GSA was designed for indexing intranets (remember those?) Yet the problem of being able to find things still exists. That my "intranet" consists now of a bunch of cloud services accessible to the internet makes no functional difference.
- teractiveodular 2y agoIf it's accessible to the Internet, Google can make a private index for you with Cloud Search and you don't need a physical appliance. https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_au/products/cloud-search/ https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_au/products/cloud-searc...
- tyingq 2y agoThat doesn't read like it can login to anything other than Google services. Those internet intranets typically sit behind some kind of authentication.
- teractiveodular 2y agoDoes Cloud Search support third-party data? Yes, Cloud Search includes connectors to third-party data sources, such as Salesforce, SAP and more than 100 others.
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