Google Search Appliance - Features

Features

The Google Search Appliance contains Google search technologies and a means of configuring and customizing the appliance. The appliance also comes with a T-shirt.

Other features include

  • it supports Google Analytics and Google Sitemaps functionality
  • its search capabilities include searching web content, other file types (e.g. html, pdf, office documents), databases (Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase) and content management systems (EMC Documentum, FileNet, Open Text LiveLink, Microsoft SharePoint)
  • indexing (crawling) of search-able content can be configured by specifying URLs to crawl. Search patterns can also be included to limit the information that is being searched and searching can be customized by using the OneBox API
  • the result set will be displayed with a Google-like appearance. The default behavior can be customized by using XSL Transformations
  • keywords that returns specific result when specific keywords are used. Example: Associate Cell Phone with http://SampleCellProvider.com so whenever someone searches for cell phone your link will appear at the top of the search no matter where it would normally appear in the result set
  • synonyms will give alternate terms for your search. E.g. when user types “cell phone”. Search will add suggestions e.g. “mobile phone” to the result set
  • cached results each result item will include a "cached" link next to each result item. By clicking on the user will be able to view an HTML version of the page / document which means that the actual document does not need to be opened
  • The result set also contains number of results returned, duration of search, document title, url of document, date modified.
  • search terms are highlighted to show search hits and allows you to see words in context without having to open documents.
  • groups similar results to hide duplicates.
  • shows document types
  • result sets can be sorted by date or relevance

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