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.
No, 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|3 years ago
Jaruzel|3 years ago
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.