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Right. The box wasn't necessary to search, but was an indicator of Google Desktop's success. Furthermore, we can still leverage the dead binary with just a litt
by 1970-01-01 1y ago
Right. The box wasn't necessary to search, but was an indicator of Google Desktop's success. Furthermore, we can still leverage the dead binary with just a little system hacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ieNv7oelk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ieNv7oelk
- gcr 1y agoWhat's the relationship between the search appliance and Google Desktop? I'm not seeing any connection.
- 1123581321 1y agoI’m not the OP but I see the connection as Google seeking growth and revenue by applying their general search know-how to areas outside of the Internet. I followed search appliance closely when they announced it. It was interesting technically and looked cool, but seemed like a dead end similar to desktop as applications were largely moving off of racks/desktops. I was right about that, but I expected Google to offer a web-based search appliance and they never did beyond custom searches. Algolia fills that opportunity nicely now.
- numpad0 1y agoI'm guessing, I think the box was marketed as a networked version of the app, and GP might be drawing a bit hand-wavy connection between the two.
- Maxious 1y agoThere was an Enterprise version of the Desktop app that connected to the Google Search Appliance (yellow pizzabox) or Google Mini (blue pizzabox, not Google Home Mini) as well as searching Windows/Mac local/shared drives https://web.archive.org/web/20070302151851/https://desktop.google.com/features.html#searchremote https://web.archive.org/web/20070302151851/https://desktop.g...