Written by
Andy Altepeter
Manager of
Based in
In our quest to improve search for both our web site and intranet, we needed to replace a customized free search engine that underperformed by delivering non-relevant results as the most relevant results. For example, a search for "
After careful review of our needs, we determined the new search technology we would implement had to be 1) world-class technology, 2) affordable 3) easy to set up and easy to use and 4) familiar to users. For our money, the Google Mini was the obvious choice.
For our Google Mini deployment, we partitioned our web space into collections for both public and intranet use and provided a customized interface for both. Once out of the box, we had the Google Mini up and running in no time, and we now highly value the following features:
* Easy, but powerful configuration capabilities; down to the one button on the Mini that makes it very simple to use
* The ability to index our fileservers as well as intranet content. Getting
results from the fileserver is an unexpected benefit for our searchers. This
feature approximately doubled the anticipated number of indexed documents.
* The ability to view all indexed documents in HTML, and cached versions showing
highlighted keywords.
The Google Mini has truly delivered for
