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How easy/expensive is it to adopt Google Mini/Google Appliance for intranet search?

Out of curiosity, is anyone here using Google Mini or Google Search Appliance to provide intranet search? Was it easy to set up? What kind of prices do they charge (ball park figure, I'm sure it depends on the customer)?
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Last-modified date not showing up in indexed documents

We have tried everything, pushing feeds, setting up fields in "document dates" screen to enable all documents in the index to contain a value for Last-modified date. Nothing seems to make documents retain a "last-modified date" in the index. How…
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Google Mini frequently times out

I have a Google Mini device that I've successfully configured to index two websites on our network. The problem is that about 50% of the time I load the admin site http://192.168.0.150:8000 (our internal IP for the box) I get the "Unable to…
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How do I salvage an old Google search appliance after an apparently failed BIOS update?

I will try to be as succinct as possible. Here's the short version: We have a 3-5 year old Google search appliance that doesn't post after I tried to update the BIOS. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IPXDR. We want to salvage the system but I…
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Switching between multiple authentication types on same URL

I have a secure SSO site that uses Shibboleth authentication and SAML identity provider. I need to allow a Google Search Appliance crawler to come index the URL's. I have a requirement to change on HTTP request from SAML to Basic authentication…
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Does the Google Search Appliance have redundant power?

Are there redundant power supplies on the Google Search Appliance? I believe that the GSA is essentially two 1u boxes pancaked together, so each of them would need a redundant power supply for the GSA to stay up during power loss from one UPS.
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Does Google Search Appliance care about files permissions?

My file server has different files visible to different people, based on groups and file permissions. I planned to buy a Google Search Appliance and configure it to crawl this network shared drive via CIFS (aka SMB). Will the search appliance…
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