[SAGE] Google Mini Appliance?

[Joseph Noonan <jfn@msc.com>]

Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of this thing:

 	<http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/index.html>

The people in MARCOM want to install one of these as part of our 
(much needed) web site overhaul.  I've read what I could on the 
site, basically everything but watched the movie (I refuse to 
watch movies for product information).  Frankly, if it were 
anybody but Google I would already have said 'no' we are not 
buying any 'appliance' that doesn't even have information about 
the way it works as part of its product information. But it is 
Google, so it probably works well for searching, so I'll dig a 
bit more.

Has anybody used one?

Did you like it?  Did your users?

How does it work?  Is is some sort of proxy, through which clients 
go on the way to your content?   Is it some sort of server that 
the web designers puts links to on the page?  Or something else?

Thanks,



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Joseph F. Noonan
Rigaku Americas Corporation
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