Overall, even if google mini gives a lot of cool features compared to a bare-born lucene project, what is good with the 50,000 documents limit. It is useless with that limit. That is just their way of trying to turn it into another cash cow.
Jian On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:45:03 -0800 (PST), Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
