Lord_Majestic - 8:13 pm on Jan 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

Good thing the DMCA would prevent anyone from buying one of these and using it to reverse engineer their algorithms

It is perfectly legal to reverse engineer in some countries, especially those outside of DMCA jurisdiction ;)

I think people only now realising how important search is, and for now they stick to searching stuff on the web without realising that their own corporations or even desktops have lots of stuff that can be taken advantage of with proper tools. IMO this market is way too small for Google, perhaps its a shot to establish themselves however... or try to make success from that first (AFAIK unsuccessful) search appliance that they had years ago!

By the way talking of number pages -- 50k pages is nothing, hell even 1 mln pages is not a lot!