Can you just not buy the software and install on your own hardware? Heck a 686b southbridge, does VIA even make those anymore, let alone SDRAM? That box must have had a lot of dust on it.

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so searching on anandtech is going to be using google search engine

i didn't know microsoft was responsible for the engine used right now

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i would hardly say microsoft was responsible... it was SQL server, but you can hardly say it is a search engine in a box

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Not that Google's search is much better (from a visual stand point). Heck, you had to have people develop google mini add-ons so it could do things like show image previews and have a layout that doesn't look like a Google search.

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adding an comment to this is fun when last post was like 2 half years ago heh

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How long before we see a big brother for it caching the forums?

Joe

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Waaaay too much information in the forums. You would max out the higher-end model easily.

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Interesting read, I don't understand a lot of it, but interesting none the less. Were you nervous cracking it open? I'd be sweating like Roger Ebert if I was trying to crack open a $3000 pizza box.

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at $3,000 it is a pretty good deal, but the 100,000 limitation is, well, a huge limitation, and the $30,000 pricetag on it's big brother is not that competitive with software solutions/crawlers.... especially since IT can only search 500,000 documents.

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Are you kidding? It's a freaking P3 1.26GHz! I could Do much better for Two grand.

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