Google Search Appliance (Google mini) for startups
Is [Google Search Appliance][1] a good fit for a startup like Stackoverflow (just an example)? How does it fare?

I haven’t seen many examples or talk about this device being used in the startup circles. I need enhanced search experience with capabilities like stemming, spell check, relevancy, easy of indexing and retrieving and complete customization of the user interface (more than what [Solr-Lucene][2] or [Autonomy][3] provides today. In fact I am bowled over by [Google Search Appliance labs][4]). Also speed is of prime concern. With this in perspective I wonder why GSA is not gaining adoption among the non-enterprise crowd. Is there any reason in particular?

Additionally, do they have flexible pricing models for startups ($30,000 for 500,000 documents seems exorbitant at this time)?  This is to me is the primary deterrent... 


  [1]: http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html
  [2]: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
  [3]: http://www.autonomy.com/
  [4]: http://www.google.com/enterprise/labs/index.html
Google Search Appliance (Google mini) for startups
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Is [Google Search Appliance][1] a good fit for a startup like Stackoverflow (just an example)? How does it fare?

I haven’t seen many examples or talk about this device being used in the startup circles. I need enhanced search experience with capabilities like stemming, spell check, relevancy, easy of indexing and retrieving and complete customization of the user interface (more than what [Solr-Lucene][2] or [Autonomy][3] provides today. In fact I am bowled over by [Google Search Appliance labs][4]). Also speed is of prime concern. With this in perspective I wonder why GSA is not gaining adoption among the non-enterprise crowd. Is there any reason in particular?

Additionally, do they have flexible pricing models for startups ($30,000 for 500,000 documents seems exorbitant at this time)?  This is to me is the primary deterrent... 


  [1]: http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html
  [2]: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
  [3]: http://www.autonomy.com/
  [4]: http://www.google.com/enterprise/labs/index.html