Well hello retro!
In this modern day of search and sunshine (not sure where the sunshine is since it rains all the damn time), I thought I’d take a trip back to version 3.x of the google mini to bring you some of those answers that you may be asking, like, what is this &restrict= crap and why does my license have ‘unlimited collections’ isn’t that standard?
Well, to answer those questions and probably only those questions, here is some information on the 3.x to save you from potentially purchasing a dud! The google Mini 3.x has a LIMITED COLLECTION LICENSE, ie, you get a collection by collection license.
This is both pointless and frustrating, but I can see where they were heading with it. Basically, this is where the &restrict= flag comes from, with the ‘old’ way of doing things, you would create a master collection (ie, default) and then you could create sub collections underneath.
In this way, two very frustrating things come up, &restrict= is too easy to replace with null, and therefore your main index is open! (just like keeping the default_collection in 4.x and 5.x versions) and of course, the second being that you only have 1 front end per collection, ala, 1 frontend for the machine.
Well, you say, that sucks? Yes, yes it does.
There is also a severe lack in functionality, support and general usefulness and my personal advice to anyone looking at a google 3.x mini on the ‘aftermarket’, is do not purchase this device. At LEAST buy a 4.x.
Have a nice day.