The Google Search Server

An anonymous reader submitted a reasonably indepth review of the Google search appliance. The guys from anandtech put it through it's paces, and included a variety of pictures and comments on one of those Google products most of us will probably never play with.

Google is Dead anyway

[stecoop]

Microsoft's Ballmer Threatened To 'Kill' Google [forbes.com]

Re:AnandTech not very search optimization saavy

[Moby Cock]

All of your points are valid. But you need to include countless digital photos to make sure that people think you know what it is you are talking about. Just like Anandtech.

Re:Neat insides

[op12]

4. Actually tested how the device performed doing its intended function? [Why would you want to do that?]

Quit complaining, it's not like this was being called an indepth review.....oh, wait.

subcontractors

[hey]

So Google subcontracted a company called GigaByte to make this box.
I was disappointed to see GigaByte didn't use MegaByte to make some subcomponent.

Re:Neat insides

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually tested how the device performed doing its intended function?

You can do this yourself; try searching the Anandtech site. It's quick, and the results look like Google results.

Re:Google is Dead anyway

[Anonymous Coward]

"I'm going to bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to kill Google."
- Steve Ballmer

"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
- Nikita Khrushchev

Did Ballmer take off his shoe and start banging on the podium while he talked?

Oh come on

[Black Perl]

First, it wasn't a review. They didn't review anything.

Second, it was a Google Mini.

Third, they didn't "put it through its paces" at all.

Lousy article, misleading /. blurb. But it was about Google! Gooooooooogle!

Free Google T-Shirt

[nudeatom]

Thats it, I gotta get me one of those just for the tee.

Re:Was this a review?

[LiquidCoooled]

The Microsoft search box comes with inbuilt Balmer power conduit!
This revolutionary interface will fire off your search responses as accurately as a plastic chair bouncing around the room.

Try searching the site for "google mini"

[openSoar]

Maybe it takes a while for the documents to be indexed but you'd think they would have added it manually given the nature of the article.

Re:where's the raid?

[horati0]

Did it strike anyone else as insane that this thing only had one hard drive? For $3,000, where's the raid array?

Here. [gmail.com]

Re:It's "its"!

[dtmos]

Like a perfect vacuum, I believe nature abhors a grammar Nazi post without a grammatical error.

Make that "It's "his", her", and "its".

*sigh*

--completed grammar Nazi mode. Resuming normal operation.

From TFA

[Anonymous Coward]

The screw is threaded - it just can't be undone with a regular screwdriver.

Right.. Only unthreaded screws can be opened by a regular screwdriver.

Where are the pigeons?

[TeXMaster]

I thought Google used pigeons ...

Re:Oh come on

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay Steve, Steve, Steve, you can put the chair down now.

Re:subcontractors

[schon]

I was disappointed to see GigaByte didn't use MegaByte to make some subcomponent.

Maybe he was too busy trying to take over Mainframe? :o)

Re:Where are the pigeons?

[Alias00]

"I thought Google used pigeons ..." They do! Why do you think they don't want people taking the covers off the servers? Plus, it does say in the manual that you're supposed to push seeds through the cooling vents every day.

Re:Neat insides

[MarkGriz]

2. Tore the box apart wondering if we could finally find a flux capacitor [Check]

I must say I'm disappointed that this [anandtech.com] is what Google passes off as a flux capacitor.

Re:Google is Dead anyway

[Jugalator]

"I'm going to bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to kill Google."

This should clearly tell you that Google is already undead, and keep rising again. He has already killed them before. Don't worry!

Carpetting

[ukleafer]

Anyone else think the Anandtech server room has some lovely, lovely carpets [anandtech.com]?

Re:Google is Dead anyway

[c0n0]

Remember he does things the M$ way...the kill() routine has a bug, that's why google is still alive.