500 times the original data? Not true! :) Otis
--- "Xiaohong Yang (Sharon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I agree that Google mini is quite expensive. It might be similar to > the desktop version in quality. Anyone knows google's ratio of index > to text? Is it true that Lucene's index is about 500 times the > original text size (not including image size)? I don't have one > installed, so I cannot measure. > > Best, > > Sharon > > jian chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was searching using google and just found that there was a new > feature called "google mini". Initially I thought it was another free > service for small companies. Then I realized that it costs quite some > money ($4,995) for the hardware and software. (I guess the > proprietary > software costs a whole lot more than actual hardware.) > > The "nice" feature is that, you can only index up to 50,000 documents > with this price. If you need to index more, sorry, send in the > check... > > It seems to me that any small biz will be ripped off if they install > this google mini thing, compared to using Lucene to implement a easy > to use search software, which could search up to whatever number of > documents you could image. > > I hope the lucene project could get exposed more to the enterprise so > that people know that they have not only cheaper but more > importantly, > BETTER alternatives. > > Jian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
