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"Before Google Mini, we were trying to patch up and organize our home grown search engine for AC Transit. It was very frustrating. In the middle of a search engine reconstruction project we suggested the use of Google Mini to the client. The client went for it, the device was delivered very fast, we implemented it within one week we launched it and the customer as well as the users of the site are super happy. And above all, the complete cost of Google Mini including the cost to implement it ended up being lower than the original search engine re-development project. And, of course, we got Google power."

Niko Spyridonos, Director of e-Business Solutions

"The Mini's KeyMatch and spelling suggestion features has made it easier for our clients to find the proprietary research that they need."

Lee Smith, President and CEO

"As an ISP and Web Host, we are excited about offering the power of the Google Mini to our website hosting customers at an affordable monthly rate. We keep the network and hardware running smoothly and they just upload their documents. Instant power search! The reaction has been terrific."

Jonathan Ritter

"We'd been struggling with a home-grown search tool that just didn't provide the indexing and features we needed to give our site visitors the relevant search results they were looking for. After looking at a few options in the market, we ordered and installed the Google Mini. Using the feature that returns search results in XML, we were able to customize the output to blend perfectly into the existing design of our site. The setup and customization was fast and easy, and the positive feedback from several departments on campus has been great."

Aaron Kerr, Webmaster

"After reviewing several solutions for a robust and scalable site search solution, including building our own, the ASRT discovered the Google Mini. With its ability to configure search results to a very granular level, ASRT decided that this attention to detail and customer satisfaction would be an equitable extension of our own philosophies of practice. Preliminary post-install trends are showing that the number of phone calls from visitors unable to find information to ASRT's Customer Information team has decreased significantly. To say the least, ASRT is quite happy with the results so far and who else to call on for great results but Google!"

Luciano Maes, Web Content Manager

"Before the Google Mini, we had been using another company's search tool. After an entire year of customization we were barely receiving a 50% success rate on search returns. A few hours after implementation of the Google Mini we had a query return success rate of over 80%. The Google Mini is by far cheaper ($3,000 vs. $50,000) easier to install and maintain (hours vs. months) and has a superior successful return rate than any other search tool on the market today. After using the Google Mini for about a month now, we are extremely satisfied and would recommend this solution for any company. Thank you Google! You guys are the best!"

Rabbi Simcha Backman, Director

"You can't go wrong for $3000. We got it up and running in a matter of hours."

Jean-Rene Auger

"The Google Mini brought the familiarity, ease of use, and functionality of the Google web search to our internal web site."

Greg Jepperson

"Beasley Allen Law firm currently manages over 45 case-specific websites. These websites contain thousands of pages of html, PDF, videos, and images. Until we found the Google Mini, there was simply no way to index and search these documents."

Scott Thomas, Lead Web Developer

"The Google Mini was up and running in no time. A little XSL work and we now have a fully custom results page that matches our website seamlessly. Thanks Google!"

Scott Beam, Webmaster

"Best Lab Deals Inc Science Made Affordable and Available! Best Lab Deals, Inc. seeks to be one of the leading eCommerce distributors of lab equipments and supplies in the world in the next decade. BestLabDeals.Com is an e-commerce site where scientists, researchers, educators, safety and industrial professionals, and hobbyists can get high-quality lab equipment and supplies at very low prices, typically 50 to 70% less than retail. It is our policy that customers have access to all the information necessary to purchase an item available including Technical Specifications, pictures, accessories and performance sheets. By doing this, we believe that customers will make more informed decisions about their purchases. The Google Search Appliance is making our dreams come true. Google Enterprise will be an excellent extension of our own philosophies of practice. Preliminary post-install trends are showing that the number of phone calls from visitors and marketing team unable to find the products based on their needs has decreased significantly."

Vance R Moore III, VP - Operations

"Our Google Mini has helped us improve both the quality and speed of our site's search. Helping our users find information that's relevant to them is one of the prime missions of t-nation.com. With Google's help, we're fulfilling our mission and keeping our users happy."

Joshua Szmajda

"Our attorneys are continually searching for information. The Google Mini helps them find exactly what they need, when they need it, using an interface they‘re already familiar with."

John Neubauer, Legal Administrator

"Purchased and deployed within hours. Easy to setup and use, customization learning curve was low."

Jacob Cameron, President

"The Mini provides much faster search, more relevant results than our previous search tool. We re-index our site nightly without putting processing load on our servers. The Mini gives us the ability to customize the user interface completely to what we want and it provides great reports. Like, duh!"

Ryan DeLuca, CEO

"We love Google Mini, one of the best investments we have made for our site. I never imagined we could have a Google search for just our site. Our customers email us each day telling us how helpful it is. Thanks for such a great product."

Matt Cook

"When redesigning our website and intranet, we conducted focus groups with attorneys, associates and administrators in a number of different offices. We heard from these groups that we needed to have efficient searching on our intranet. 'Google' was suggested time after time because it's easy-to-use and delivers the most relevant search results."

Keith Schultz, Application Development and Web Design Manager

"We've had an e-commerce site since 1998 but have never been satisfied with any of our search options. Our Google Mini was added late in the summer of '05...what a difference! The Mini finds everything we want it to, and it's fast! We already see an increase in multi-sale orders, meaning people are searching our site more effectively and finding just what they are looking for."

Matt Gahman

"We needed to serve our readers in a more accurate manner with regards to site-wide search. We are a research and information source to a community of technology executives and technical experts. The Google Mini allowed us to quickly, easily and inexpensively address the challenge."

Shawn Rogers, Executive Vice President

"The Google Mini has done an incredible job for us. The device was unpacked, installed, programmed and crawling within an hour. We can now search our 50,000 documents in seconds to find files we need in real-time. What used to take us hours now takes a fraction of a second."

"Even though we made several modifications to the way search results are returned, the implementation and testing by our team went fast. Adding the Google Mini on our Web site (www.carolina.com) has enabled our customers to search much faster and more accurately."

"The Google Mini has made it easy for staff and patrons to successfully search across our 6 websites."

Chris Glover, Technology Coordinator

"Prior to using the Google Mini, our customers had great difficulty finding specific types of products. Now they can easily refine their search criteria and locate and buy the products that they're searching for."

Dewayne Johnson, Developer

"Easily to install and configure, we were up and running in 15 minutes and fully indexed in 1 hour. Search results are close to perfect every time!"

Chris Johnson, Manager, Web Development

"C.V.T.C. has a large Intranet and a new web portal. We have been struggling to find and efficient way to allow users to search for Intranet content in an efficient manner. We did some research and the Google Mini sounded like exactly what we needed. We installed the Mini and had the first search occurring within 6 hours. This product has done exactly what it advertised it would do."

Adam Stavn

"The KeyMatch system has helped increase awareness of special promotions that people might not otherwise have found. It lets me put offers in front of the people who are directly interested in them. So far, the average order size of people who click on KeyMatch results and purchase is double the average order size of other orders."

Jared Geesey, VP Marketing and Development

"The City of Fredericton is a ISO 9001:2000 registered organization and as such documenting everything we do in a Quality Management system is critical to the success of our ISO certification. Our QMS system has grown to include thousands of documents all required to run our City. Google Mini Search has made a world of difference for accessing our forms, check lists, work instructions, policies and procedures. Thanks Google you rock."

Mike Richard

"We work collaboratively with medical and health organizations as well as prescribers and their patients to provide the best possible therapy options available. Having a Google Mini on our team has enabled us to serve as an invaluable source of information to prescribers and patients alike without the hassle of sifting through irrelevant results and ads."

Nikki Ricciardi, Public Relations & Web Development Manager

"We had been using an open-source solution for years. We'd seen spotty results from a technical standpoint, and our marketing team always expressed more of a desire to control over influencing those results. Almost overnight after the Mini was racked we were able to perform a crawl, and within a week we were confident enough to switch out the old search engine within a campus template."

Greg Pool

"The Google Mini's KeyMatch feature gives us a powerful marketing tool that we hadn't even considered previously. We're excited about KeyMatch because we can advertise our latest sports events, performances or financial aid information right in the search results, and do so unobtrusively, just like the ads on Google.com."

Terri O'Connor, Director of Marketing and Communications

"The first reason: We where looking for a search solution that provided service over our different databases and also through our XML and HTML web pages. Google Mini is the solution. We have more than 80.000 legal and official documents and our clients must get all of the information that we provide quickly."

Marti Manent

"Divorcenet.com has thousands of public articles, with over 500 contributing authors. We needed better search functionality to help our end users quickly find the content to match their legal needs. The Google Mini exceeded our expectations, providing efficient indexing, search customization and accurate reporting."

Toby Franklin, Director of Content

"If each person asks just one fewer question per year because they can now find the information on the intranet using the Google Mini, our support requirements are reduced, our users get what they need, and everyone is happier."

Jackson Radcliffe, Executive Director of Technology

"The Mini allows Best Buy's vendors to search their Supplier Portal quickly and efficiently for the documents they need. Setup was a breeze and Best Buy staff runs the admin portion. The Mini's a coup."

Michael P. O'Hara

"When we ordered the Google Mini, the search engine running on our internal website wasn't meeting our needs. We were able to quickly install and configure the Mini to replace and dramatically improve our existing search capability. Once other departments saw how easy it was to find documents on our website, we ended up using the Mini to search their web pages as well."

Andrew Ennis

"Our main audience is engineers who need to find technical information on our site fast. We previously used an open source search engine which didn't provide what we needed - relevant search results for specific terms. The Mini delivered much better search and everybody knows how Google works anyway; so there is no learning curve. With the clever use of meta tags and customized style sheets, our search results even display product images."

Stefan Seiz, eBusiness Architect

"The Google Mini has improved our search results and therefore increased sales."

"The Mini should really help on reducing the number of support calls we receive."

Al Nagy

"Fat Brain Toys, an online retailer of specialty toys and gifts, has featured home-grown search functionality from our inception nearly three years ago. It worked great for customers searching for single word products like 'geomag,' but with the pervasiveness of search, our customers became increasingly more savvy with their own querying capabilities. Over the last two years we started to see more and more instances of customers entering complex search phrases into our product search engine such as 'magnetic geomag sets on sale.' Even though we did indeed offer many geomag sets on sale, our search functionality simply wasn't complex enough to return a single result. Bottom line: lost opportunities...lost sales. After coming to the conclusion that our internal search functionality was inadequate, it was an easy decision to choose a commercial solution. After all, we thought, who does search better than Google? The only real question was cost and integration. With the introduction of the Google Mini, the cost question was answered. Configured with the storage, capabilities, and features that suited the relatively modest requirements of our ecommerce website, the cost vs. benefit equation was easy to compute. For our company, ease and seamless integration were absolute priorities. The Google Mini delivered on both counts. It took just 35 minutes to complete a basic integration from the time we cracked open the box. Using the advanced capabilities of the XML interface, we were able to further customize the integration to provide our customers with a consistent look and feel in addition to the highly-relevant search results. The XML interface even allowed us further tweaks like including product thumbnails for related search results. We often sit back and wonder what we did before the Mini entered our lives!"

Mark Carson, President and Co-Founder

"The Google Mini appliance allowed us to quickly and easily deploy a search tool for our internal employees to search thousands of company documents. Search results are accurate and very fast. Our users love the Mini!"

Tim Crosby

"GarageGames has a large database of developer resources, articles, links, books, blogs and extensive forums. Our home brewed search solution quickly become cumbersome and difficult to use as the community and volume of information grew. It is counter intuitive to think that an external search engine could be better than our custom hand coded solution that knew something about the data -- but the Google Mini is much better, exponentially better! The Google Mini is a dream come true. We had it up and running on our test server within a few hours and deployed it on our live site within a few days. The Google Mini reduced support calls/email and improved community relations. We're happy, they are happy, we're all happy. I would recommend the Google Mini to anyone."

Rick Overman, Co-Founder

"Google Mini was integrated into Gaumer's ecommerce website. The Mini provides search results within an i-Frame on our Commerce Server-based website. Customer feedback has been exceptional."

Jeff McClanahan

"The Google Mini has helped us understand exactly what users are looking for on our site and develop content for the topics that they're interested in."

Matt Holt, Webmaster, Department of Driver Services

"Try a search and see!"

"Things we like: - Low cost - Sets up in minutes - Nothing else we tried worked - Example success with the Mini: Using the reports form the Google Mini, we learned that the most frequent search query on our site was 'language' and realized that our customers were having a hard time finding localized versions of our software. We have made the localized versions more visible and improved our localization program based on reviewing the Mini's customer search reports."

Brian Christal, Director of Ecommerce

"Grenzebach Glier & Associates, Inc has implemented the Google Mini Appliance in our Corporate Intranet. We have chosen to 'image' or 'scan' several thousand client documents into a standard format. We find that it will (1) reduce the amount of space our client materials take up in paper files and (2) make retrieving those documents faster. The Google Mini works in conjunction with an OCR scanning software that, once a document is imaged, converts the file into a text document that can be crawled by the appliance. There is also a corresponding imaged PDF that the user can use to print the document in its original form."

"Haley makes business rules software which enables enterprises to quickly change business logic in their enterprise systems using plain English. Our corporate web site is a showcase of this technology since we can quickly make real-time changes to the site without application coding. The Google Mini is a perfect complement to this system, integrating seamlessly with our technology – we were up and running in minutes!"

Peter Toriello, Webmaster

"We are using the Google Mini to search our documentation, customer services tickets and internal file server."

Justin Hourigan

"Our documents and pages change constantly. The Google Mini allows us to keep our search relevant for our students and staff."

Will Jayroe

"Our in-house search engine was unable to do deep searches of PDF files, and other documentation that we have. It was also rather unforgiving of search terms that one uses. To address these problems, we added a 'Complete Search' functionality to our site to allow users to search of ALL our content. We love the Google Mini!"

Dan Jones, Manager, Sales & Marketing

"We currently use the Google search appliance on our public web site and the Google Mini our intranet site. Google has been one of the most popular improvements IT has contributed to the company. Users are thrilled with how easy it is to find the information they seek. We are a bit sheepish about it because it was so easy and painless to deploy-- not to mention very cost effective. We feel a bit guilty about the heaps of praise we've garnered from employees because the time and effort required was negligible! We are Google evangelists now and spread the word to all who will listen."

Phillip Crabtree

"We rolled out the Google Mini across our global public websites in multiple languages. After deployment, we saw a decrease in user abandonment because the Mini delivered more appropriate results than our previous tool did."

"We have used Google Mini to allow our customers to search five different pieces of information scattered on different websites: Online Help, User Forums, Knowledge Base and two sets of documentation for advanced users. Customers now can help themselves rather than contacting our Technical Support. We've also created a separate collection to allow prospects to search our corporate website for product and related information. After two months, the number of technical support cases are 40% lower than before and our customers are happier because they can get answers instantly without having to wait for support to reply."

Razi Mohiuddin President & CEO, Iron Speed, Inc.

"Jadu develop content management and web based information systems for UK Government. We implemented the Google Mini to test its compatibility with our content systems and were very happy with the result. So much so, that we now recommend the Google Mini and Appliance to our Government partners. We have successfully persuaded 4 UK Local Authorities to implement the Google Mini this year."

"Over the past year, our firm launched 32 country websites in multiple languages to showcase our globally integrated commercial real estate services. Google Mini offered an efficient solution to index the multilingual content on all of our sites. Not only did we save a lot of time and resources by using an out-of-the-box application, but now we are able to realize the benefits of Google's powerful and proven search tools. With Google Mini we can report on the most commonly searched-for phrases, which helps us ensure that we provide the most desired content to our users. It also reports on any broken links on our sites - an extremely valuable tool allowing us to keep user frustration to a minimum."

Leah Davis

"We are using the Google Mini to index all of the US Supreme Court decisions since v.1. It took us an hour to set up the machine and get the search up and running."

Tim Stanley, CEO

"As the intranet for the world's leading provider of lifelong education with operations around the globe, we had several thousand pieces of crucial documents and articles which were key for our employees to have quick access to. Of critical importance was the ability for our search to index the contents of any document we posted, and to do so quickly and accurately, and the Google Mini did both seamlessly almost right out of the box. We've seen an increase in our intranet searches since we've launched the Mini and have received a positive amount of feedback that our intranet is now searched by the search engine they trust the most."

Michael Pinzuti

"We were using the IIS and Commerce Server Site Indexing for search results before we switched to the Google Mini Appliance. We were unable to find our trademarked products such as ThriftyBanner because it was all one word. Your appliance, after learning our products, now give keyword spelling choices to help guide our customers to the right products. We also love the feature to add KeyMatch results. This allows us to promote products and services to push our end users to the products they are looking for and request."

Pete Petersen

"Overall, we have been very happy with our Google Mini, which we use as the general search engine for our site at www.maplesoft.com. Its implementation went very smoothly and we found it extremely easy to customize the look and feel of it to match our site interface. Since launch, we have been closely monitoring the search results using the Mini's built-in report tools, and have been using the results to target traffic more effectively within our site and to create and/or modify content to better serve our customers."

Bryon Thur, Manager, Business Information Systems

"The deployment of the Google Mini was so painless, we were able to successfully integrate into our website redevelopment project without changing our deadline - we expected to add it in afterwards. Now our subscribers benefit from Google power and we can spend time on other projects."

Alex Khost and Philip Cotty, Web Developers

"We use the Google Mini to index our website's content, software knowledge base, our user manual and online forum. Deployment of the Mini was simple and efficient. We have hard data to support it has enhanced our sales processes and support infrastructure. We also use the Google Search Appliance for our MonsterMarketplace.com product search."

Ryan Noble, President

"Using the reporting from the Mini we were able to see breakpoints in our information architecture. By seeing exactly what people are search for we were able to tailor our Information architecture to better serve our customer's needs."

Michael DelGaudio

"The Google Mini was simple to install and integrate into the Nasdaq.com site. Besides giving our audience powerful search capabilities, it has been an excellent marketing and analytics tool for us. We now have insight into keyword metrics that allow us to send users to the appropriate content based on their search criteria. We are able to shape the message our audience sees based on keywords. The Google Mini has provided solid search capabilities for us at a low cost."

Bruce Hashim, Associate Vice President, Nasdaq Web Operations

"Our home-grown search was hit-or-miss. Often, our own customer service department would abandon using our internal search and just use www.google.com to find things on our own website. The Google Mini was a perfect fit for our web team."

"Medical students and residents find it challenging to find good medical images from which to learn. A typical textbook may only have one or two radiologic images of a particular disease or finding (i.e. like volvulus or apical caps). We used a Google Mini to spider 25,000 radiologic images and their readings. In our first search on volvulus, we found 40 images - more than any textbook in medicine. We are now moving to the enterprise edition to spider 500,000 images, CT scans, MRIs, VQ scans and more to create the largest, internal, medical image teaching library ever available for learning."

Michale Gillam, MD

"A cheap and quick-and-dirty search engine/service in a portal for the local public administration."

Andrea Fanfani, CTO

"Our organization has seen a significant improvement in search results for our Web site. Not only that, but our Web developers are able to use the capabilities of the Mini to help improve the overall quality of our site, and help guide users to our information based on their searches."

Ed Dempsey

"The Google Mini has saved our business thousands of dollars in Programming a database search engine. We use our Google Mini to allow our shoppers to access the products they are looking for on all of our sites. Our customers have told us that they are now able to find the product they want easier."

Jeremy Simon, Programming Manager

"Many visitors of our site use search as their main navigation method. Having a reliable, flexible, and powerful search solution was critical for our mission success and Google Mini met and exceeded our expectations. Every aspect of our search enhancement project from installation to search results customization and scheduled indexing was very smooth and the product certainly helps us create a better user experience."

Alex Minakov, Web Systems

"The Google Mini unlocks all of the valuable intellectual property that our employees have created, enabling us to produce new beneficial technologies faster. The Mini also reduces the significant expense of complying with regulatory guidelines by allowing us to quickly find the relevant documents located in multiple repositories across our organization."

John Chambers, CEO

"Sales increased and complaints about not being about to find things on the site went to zero."

"Absolutely astounding. At Platinum Studios, the Mini is an essential tool, putting mountains of media at everyone's fingertips. There is no before and after, there is just the working office."

Shawn Bausch

"Google Mini, in conjunction with Orchestra's contextual information framework, helps our customers connect the dots and make effective decisions. Its returns fast and accurate results, making Orchestra all the more valuable for business processes in an enterprise environment. We recommend the Google search solution to our customers."

Dr. Shree Nath, Director of Technology

"The Google Search Appliance has worked well for us on our customer-facing Web site. We have the flexibility to provide the customer with context-sensitive search results based on where they are in the site. We've further improved the search results by using Google's key match technology to direct users to specific content for keywords that are commonly used on our site."

Dede F. Ramoneda, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Information Technology & Telecommunications

"The College Web Site serves as a conduit for multimedia course materials, providing a platform for text, images, audio, and video used in instruction. In addition, the Web site is the backbone for the College's marketing and communications program and contributes directly to increasing and insuring student retention, building enrollments in both degree and continuing education programs, and showcasing the College's resources - Art Gallery, Performing Arts Center and Holocaust Resource Center. Finding what you need, when you need it, fast is imperative, and the Google-Mini provides that for our Web site users and visitors."

Bruce Naples

"We utilize a 3rd party company for maintaining a large amount of historical, project and research data. As much as we liked this arrangement, the search engine left a lot to be desired. By implementing the Google Mini, we are now able to quickly index, sort and find the right information the first time. Google's search technology is by far the best we have encountered."

Jeff Ewing

"Calligrafix investigated different search solutions and settled on the Google Mini for searching through site documents as well as the web pages which are dynamically created from our information management system. The users have the familiar Google interface with the results wrapped in the look and feel of the site so they don't feel as if they have been shunted off to an external site. The solution works well and reduces load on the web server where the previous search solutions resided."

Mike Forsyth

"We are implementing our Google Mini to allow staff to search our stored legal knowledge."

Steve Dalgleish

"Our staff actively avoided using the website search as they knew it was useless. Now, it is their tool of choice. Search time was reduced and the number of false positive returns dropped to nearly zero, making the search function a valuable tool."

Jim Carroll, President

"We were originally using a software based search that was a very unfriendly solution. It was difficult to set-up, hard to monitor and the reporting was not all that helpful. I did some searching and although I had never considered a hardware based solution before, I decided to give the Mini a try. We received the box within three days and I had it up and running in about a week. It was very easy to set up and after a few small tweaks, the spidering took only 40 minutes. I did have some questions about the setup and they were very promptly answered by an email to your engineers. Overall, I am very satisfied with the Google Mini. I would purchase it again in a heartbeat and will tell others who are looking for a good internal search solution about it."

Kent Powell, Online Marketing/Internet Development Professional

"Our blog, located at http://blogs.snapstream.com/2005/04/22/google-mini explains our purchase process. We've been extremely happy since purchasing and installing our Google Mini. Google Mini is providing site-wide search of all of our knowledgebase articles, our user forums (a vbulletin board), our product information, and our web store. We also use Google Mini’s subcollection feature to provide, for example, search of all of our tech support resources on our support page (http://www.snapstream.com/support/). In particular, self-service customer service is way up and e-mail / phone incidents are down in our customer service department. Additionally, as we globalize our business and begin selling in Europe (at www.snapstream.de and www.snapstream.fr, for example) the Google Mini moves right along with us. We've also used the reporting functions to determine what people are looking for on our website and this knowledge has enabled us to really streamline the information on our website. We love our Google Mini!"

Rakesh Agrawal, Founder & All-around-marketing-guy

"We are currently integrating the Google Mini with our Microsoft content management server based corporate website"

Ronnie Macquaker

"We were using the 'canned' search engine that came with our ecommerce software. It was very limited. Heck even we were frustrated with it. After 2 days of deployment of the Mini I already know it is worth the investment 10 fold. Thanks."

Doug Harrison

"Before adding a search feature to our website, we evaluated a wide range of search technologies. The Google Mini topped our list in practically every category. Its search quality, features, ease of use, and seamless integration with our website were unmatched. If we had to make the choice again, we wouldn't think twice."

Assaf Weinberg, IT Systems Analyst

"The Google Mini delivered relevant search results without needing any manual configuration and the Mini's ability to automatically detect over twenty languages ensures that it can help all of our users find the information they're looking for."

Marc Burki, CEO

"We had a great need for a streamlined web-based search engine to augment our online HTML-based Enterprise Help System. Your Google Mini has been instrumental in adding the Google search capabilities to our custom help system."

Darrell MacLeod

"Google Mini has easily allowed us to produce full search capabilities on our new web site. The product has been an unqualified success."

Martyn Andrews, IS/IT Manager

"We recognize the importance of investing in a quality search solution. We really didn't know what we'd get from any others, but we've used Google.com for years, so we were confident that the Google Mini would offer quality search results and be easy to use. And in fact it has given us the best search solution available at an extremely affordable price."

Bill Ambrose, Webmaster

"We were sold on the Google Mini after ten minutes, purchased it online via credit card, installed it in a few hours and had it live on our site within the week. The quality and relevance of the search results delivered by the Google Mini are vastly superior to those delivered by our prior free search software. Sometimes I wonder if our prior search software was even searching the same website."

Scott Klein, Web Publisher and Director of Technology

"With thousands of pages of Web Hosting news, reviews, articles and archives available on TheWHIR.com. We recognized that we needed a powerful search product backed by superior customer service to satisfy the demands of our tech savvy audience. The Google Mini has proven to be a reliable search feature for our entire database of web content, implementation was a breeze and the price tag, superb."

Stephen Mayhew, Publisher

"Adding and modifying searches are virtually effortless now. Especially with the KeyMatch interface. We can immediately add names to files that we see are being searched on by using the reporting tool. It means that users get immediate access to the files they seek on our site, using the terms they most frequently search on. We can't say enough about the Google Mini."

Richard S. Tombelli

"We were able to not only deploy the Mini in a few days, but it is now possible for people searching on our tool site to find the parts they need on our second site. We did some modifications for the KeyMatches as well and have a much more customized system which our vendors are now interested in advertising on. The first few we set up have made a difference in how people find some of our products, and they're great for upselling at the time of search. By using the XML interface, we've been able to track the search phrases and the number of results returned. We can quickly see the phrases that aren't returning any results and make changes as we need to quickly and with minimal effort. This has let to more successful searches and more relevance on our site. The Mini will easily pay for itself within a few months."

Brian Mark, Chief Technical Officer

"The number of searches on Toolfetch.com is up 30% since the new search application was added, and sales are up 15%. The Google Mini paid for itself."

Andrew Brown, CEO

"Our Google Mini has allowed us to replace our archaic search functionality with a robust system that has increased customer retention and satisfaction, and has improved our online visibility. We have customized the Mini to integrate seamlessly with our site and provide search for over 35,000 trails, and thousands of geographical regions on our site."

Neal Bozeman, Director of Technology

"Out of the box, easy to use search engine. It is at the moment it's on an intranet site, but will be placed on our public website as soon as possible. It works great!"

Ruud Zoutenbier

"We use google mini for both external and internal searches, and are currently working on optimizing our documents via meta text to do very specific, targeted searches."

Jonathan Lam

"We are a non-profit organization with a relatively small IS staff. Our site, however, is fairly large and contains a great many documents and forms (many in PDF format) that our users (who number in the millions) require easy access to. We simply did not have the staff to write our own search engine when we redesigned our site from scratch earlier this year. Of all of the alternatives out there (commercial or otherwise), the Google Mini was the only solution that would integrate seamlessly given our new Web site architecture. The power and speed of this appliance is unparalleled for the price. We are very satisfied customers."

Mark Snyder

"For only $3000, the Google Mini saved us a month's work. We use the Google Mini to enable engineering students to search across electronic textbooks. The Mini has been a great help to our students. Previously, students had to go through chapters and sections (similar to a print book) to find the topic they were interested in. Now with the Mini, students can quickly find exactly the topic they're looking for."

Kurt Gramoll, PhD, Engineering Media Lab Director

"USCity.net is an internet business directory comprised of over 50 state directories. Each directory has a search feature, but we had no way of searching all the directories. We tried several methods over the years, but the searches took too long. The Google Mini was a perfect solution for our site. USCity.net and Google, the king of search technology, made a great combination. Our next step will be upgrading to the Google Search Appliance."

Rusty Crawford, Founder and CTO

"The Google Mini was very easy to set up, and since we have had thousands of people use it to find what they are looking for on our website. In the week we've had the Mini, it has already made a real difference."

Matt Cook, Operations Manager

"The Warwick Business School site is critical to our students and faculty. We chose to implement the Google Mini because we knew that it would provide the highest quality search experience and would require minimal IT resources to install and maintain."

Simon Harper, Applications Development Manager

"The Google Mini has greatly improved our ability to search through content and it searches quickly. The KeyMatch function is especially useful when there may be somewhat obscure information that we want to highlight based on a commonly used search term. The subcollections function is also helpful."

Casey Callaghan Cullen, Co-Ordinator of Procedures & Manuals / Webmaster

"Xitron customers and dealers are now able to more quickly locate the specific topic or content they require thanks to the addition of the Google Mini. Prior to the deployment of the Google Mini, our users may have had to search several sections to locate the specific detail they required. With the search results provided by the Google Mini, users are able to quickly find the information they require. Using the search data collected by the Google Mini, Xitron has been able to customize our content to meet the needs of our users. We feel the use of the Google Mini has enhanced the experience on the website for both Xitron staff and our users."

Bill Owens, Director of Marketing

"Google Mini has allowed us to customize the search experience for our sites audience (in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese) as well as provide an effective means of searching through the numerous documents published on our site."

"Fast and easy."

"It is proving very popular with staff and students. It was easy to install and was up and running within an hour."

Art O'Coileain

"Currently the Mini is successfully used to make the ICT architecture principles, standards and statement of directions plus ICT governance processes widely known (!!)."

"It came, it crawled, it found. Veni Vidi Vici. (within a hour) Our Google Mini is going to index Microsoft Content Management sites. Google search technology in a customizable corporate skin. What more could we ask for?"

"Google Mini has allowed us to index our legal research, allowing fee earners quick and easy access to relevant material."

Steve Dalgleish

"We originally had an in-house written search and spider, but this was inefficient and only had very basic search algorithms. With the cost of the Google Mini it made no sense to develop this on further when we could get the Google server - giving us all the features we wanted to develop, and more, for a fraction of the development cost."