Has Google Mini met its match? : InfoWorld has looked at Google's search appliances in the past, and Test Center Contributing Analyst Mike Heck has liked what he's seen, from the nifty yellow casing down to the overall performance. Well, IBM and Yahoo are now giving Google a run for its search money, offering a free enterprise search tool, IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition. Mike even got to take it for a spin, and he w Has Google Mini met its match? : InfoWorld has looked at Google’s search appliances in the past, and Test Center Contributing Analyst Mike Heck has liked what he’s seen, from the nifty yellow casing down to the overall performance. Well, IBM and Yahoo are now giving Google a run for its search money, offering a free enterprise search tool, IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition. Mike even got to take it for a spin, and he was really quite impressed. Google may very well need to retool its search boxes.Advantage: Novell: InfoWorld Chief Technologist Tom Yager observes that as SCO’s legal action flounders and the Microvell partnership blossoms, Novell holds the biggest advantage. Among other things, “Microsoft is handing 70,000 copies of a primary competitor’s operating system to existing Windows customers, introducing Windows-only shops to the advantages of the heterogeneous enterprise.”How much is that robot in the Window? Are you harried Windows admin in need of an assistant, yet facing a budget crunch that makes it impossible to hire one? Well, perhaps you can program your own using Microsoft’s new Robotics Studio software. IDG News Service reports that the application “includes programming tools intended to make it easier to write robot applications, and a runtime environment that allows them to be used and reused on different types of hardware.” Technology Industry