Looks like google's new tool is live, Google Mini, for $4995 your company can use this tool to search your site/intranet. Interesting: http://www.googlestore.com/appliance/GO0123.asp
why the hell would you shell out that much? couldnt u just use sitesearch and desktopsearch over a LAN?
Yeah, seems a bit pricey to me too, but it could be useful for companies with extremely large intranets and sites. I imagine that G did a fair amount of market research, and determined there was a market for this if they're selling it.
that's fine for a small business with a couple of employees, but if you have any size whatsoever there's a big liability in trying to avert the system. $5000 is a pretty ok price tag for a useful piece of software in most "enterprise" businesses.
Thunderstone Search Appliance does things Google's mini doesn't, and Thunderstone costs less! Or just use their free Webinator software if under 10K pages. See thunderstone.com for details.
I can't see the need to rush out and buy this with any computer network under 20 strong. And that's a big network.