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The google search appliance might have been one of the worst products I've ever used in my career. If they're going to make a box, I hope they put some effort
by swalsh 2y ago
The google search appliance might have been one of the worst products I've ever used in my career. If they're going to make a box, I hope they put some effort into it.
- dehrmann 2y agoMy theory is that the heuristics (PageRank and click-through feedback) that made 2008 Google great don't work in corporate environments.
- tomjakubowski 2y agoHiring a 2010-era SEO expert to spam the company Notion with backlinks to the stuff I've written.
- piperswe 2y agoCommon Confluence SEO at my company is to add a bunch of keywords then change the text color to white!
- tehjoker 2y agoI wonder if the improvements in semantic search have changed that at all. For a big company though, you might need a pretty beefy setup to perform the initial indexing.
- mosura 2y agoStrictly speaking Google still make boxes for people just in a different market. What was so bad about the search appliance though? Physical? Software?
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- stingraycharles 2y agoThe Netflix appliance is pretty good in my experience. No reason Google couldn’t pull something similar off themselves, unless they’re being very Google about it.
- ijustlovemath 2y agoThey have some incredible hardware talent (TPUs, Pixels), but I'm guessing this project will not get the polish of those more public facing products
- SwamyM 2y agoGiven the myraid of issues they seem to have, I am not sure I would classify Pixels as having polish. But yes, they definitely have the talent to make some good hardware. It's just a matter of whether their priorities match those of their users.
- NBJack 2y agoI can't think of a major phone brand that hasn't had some kind of major issue over the years. The batteries of the Note 7, iPhone "antenna gate" (and the more recent lack of advertised AI debacle), etc. How would you say it compares to those?
- aftbit 2y agoI think Pixels are pretty polished, at least compared to all the cheapo off-brand Android options out there. Some people like Samsung better but I can't stand their UI. Apple would be fine if I could sideload...
- lallysingh 2y agoSamsung with a 3rd party launcher works pretty well
- hinkley 2y agoDo they only sell those to ISPs or could a housing developer or a hotelier get their hands on those?
- er4hn 2y agoI actually mourn the loss of it. It felt so much better than any other accursed on-prem search solution I've seen since.
- cyberpunk 2y agofastsearch was pretty good before Microsoft bought it.. Elastic is good enough.
- phatskat 2y ago> Elastic is good enough. Probably the most praise I’ve ever seen about Elastic. I do respect the amount of power and utility, and it’s definitely a workhorse, but it’s like a horse with one human leg, a bad eye, extra bones but also not enough bones, and a French accent but only knows Korean. Once you get used to the fact that you can’t do what you intend to, but you can do what elastic wants, it becomes a lot more manageable.
- Workaccount2 2y agoThe box might have been awful, but the sigh of relief when seeing a website was using it was wonderful.
- ycombinatrix 2y agoI don't think GP is talking about the "search with google" box on third party sites. They're talking about a physical on-prem search server (box) that google used to distribute.
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- runjake 2y agoWhy? In my limited experience, it was pretty useful, but again, my experience is limited. What made it one of the worst products you’ve ever used?