A review of the Google Mini search appliance

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Google is about as familiar and ubiquitous as a search technology can get, and yet the Google Mini presents a potent new pitch — why not power your customer's site-searching needs with a Google product to call your own? The company packs its search technology into the Mini's thin blue box and slaps it with a starting sticker price of $1,995. They call it a search appliance, and it promises to bring the now-familiar Google experience to your site visitors...

Reporting
Fans of metrics will not lack for information with the Google Mini's many kinds of reporting options. The Mini can serve up live statistics including its indexing performance and its search results performance. It can generate summary reports for popular keywords, failure modes and other usage profiles.

Turnkey Defined
Pitched as a veritable plug-and-play search solution, the Mini achieves its goal. The product, from setup to execution, is well thought out and the quality is what you'd expect from the Google brand.

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