Google Search Appliance featured in TechArt exhibition at IMMA
– posted April 1st, 2007 by Laurence Veale Comments (4)
iQ Content have installed the Google Search Appliance as the sole exhibit in the TechArt exhibition at IMMA which finishes up today.
Google Search Appliance: beautifully implemented
Director of IMMA, Enrique Juncosa, didn’t say
We’re delighted to have commissioned this amazing piece of work from iQ Content. What is shows is that technology and art can not only coexist, but can often be inseparable. Form and function together in perfect harmony.
Art could be described as the pursuit of truth and in delivering relevant and accurate results in sub-second response times, the Google Search Appliance could be described as the ultimate artist.
Enrique Juncosa could also have said
In his Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats put it in a similar fashion,
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Google Search Appliance: a big hit with the crowds
Many visitors to the Google Search Appliance exhibit were taken back by the minimalist beauty of its design.
“I love this beautiful yellow box. I’d love to take it home with me and hang it on my wall”, Manuel from Barcelona said of its appearance.
“I love the way it works, not just how it looks. The Google engineers who made it are geniuses, or is it genii?”, commented Basil from Torquay.
Polly Sherman, another visitor to the exhibit, was a little more discerning. Sure, it’s beautiful and designed really well, but is it really art?
Missed the Google Search Appliance exhibition?
If you missed the exhibition on April 1st, we’d be delighted install the Google Search Appliance as a permanent exhibition within your organisation. Drop us a line, let’s talk search and find.
Update: iQ Content rebrands as iQBits
In other news, iQ Content is to rebrand, reinvent and be reborn as iQ Bits.
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4 comments so far
1. David Barrett on Apr 1st, 2007 - 20:44
What, no curly-braced logo?
2. Lar on Apr 2nd, 2007 - 01:22
@Dave, okay then….
3. Paul Browne on Apr 3rd, 2007 - 09:34
Are you taking the exhibition on tour for the next April 1st?
Nice link to what you company does as well
What’s your experience been with customers that need this (against a-build-your-own solution with Apache Lucene?
Paul
4. Laurence on Apr 3rd, 2007 - 10:37
Hi Paul,
the Tate Modern is next year’s venue
I’m obviously biased but I haven’t seen any DIY solution come even close to the relevancy and accuracy of the Google Search Appliance.
Another option is the Google Mini which starts at €1,995 plus a day or two of customisation - I would guess much cheaper than the time spent developing.
I’ll be publishing a case study over the next couple of weeks to show just a small part of what it can do.
Lar