> WOW! I started a wild fire here! :) I've used GSA on an old website (the free > version) and it seemed to do very well even in its early days. Dave, can > I assume the free version works the same as the paid version of GSA (with the > exception of ads for the free version)? It's been a few years since > I've used it and may check it out for testing before going any further and > bringing it up with the team. > > Thank you all for your valuable input so far! It looks like it's down to GSA > vs. Solr
I think there's a bit of confusion here (and that may be my fault). Google has two search products: - Google Search Appliance (GSA) - Google Site Search (GSS) / Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) GSA is not free. There's no free version of GSA, and there never really has been (with the minor exception of a virtualized version of the GSA solely suitable for testing). The GSA is pretty expensive, although it's usually far cheaper than competing products like Autonomy, FAST, etc. There is a base price to license a GSA, and a price per document beyond 500,000. The GSA is actually an appliance. When you license this, Google ships you a big box in the mail, and you rack- mount and configure this box. This runs on your internal network, and can access whatever content you have on that network if you like. All of the stuff I described earlier was about the GSA, as that's the thing I work with most often. GSS and CSE are basically the paid and free versions, respectively, of Google's hosted search functionality. The free version is limited to a specific number of queries, and pricing is based on the number of queries. GSS/CSE can only access public web content. The nice thing about this is that you can try it out and see how it works in just a few minutes. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:355024 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
