once upon a time i installed these for my job. they were a nightmare.
@mikko @mikko
26 Feb 2021
You used to be able to buy your own search engine from Google.

Feb 27, 2021 · 1:51 AM UTC

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don't know if it was the fact that they were locked with a physical key and the only way to configure them was a webpage that took 15 minutes to work after boot, or that if you did it wrong you could ddos yourself
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Were these behind the "search this site with Google" search boxes you used to see?
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say hello to your little friend ebay.com/itm/Google-Search-A…
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Looks like the cheese made from a Gateway computer
Replying to @internetofshit @Ohthatflo
We almost went with the Google box back when I was working my corporate job, but I convinced my team to go with IBM Watson search instead. Far better product for a corporate search platform.
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The case is dope, too bad they’re rare
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So you're the one we blame for Skynet?
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~2000, the Excite@Home infrastructure here in Sydney was very colourful.
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Lycos was cheaper
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Internal Google search was pretty excellent. I made a positive impression on my new team by integrating Google search into our team wiki, whose internal search function was useless.
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The fact these have impressive looking but no doubt laughable physical security makes me wonder if anyone has broken into one of these and made an image of whatever proprietary shit is running on them. Bet you can’t Google it tho.
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