| Product Features
The Google Search Appliance offers many benefits
to end users and administrators alike, both in intranet and
public website deployments. To learn how the Google Search
Appliance can help deliver superior search results for your
organization, click one of the links below.
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Databases [pdf]
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Provide access to data stored
in your relational databases by crawling
the content directly from the database and serving the content
in a
number of formats including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQLServer,
MySQL, Oracle
and Sybase. |
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3rd Party Content Feed API [pdf]
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Push non-web accessible content into your Google Search Appliance with a
simple XML conversion. |
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Secure Content API - New |
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Search across secure content using Google's Authorization API to integrate
into existing access control systems. |
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Localized Administration - New |
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Administer your Google Search Appliance around the globe in your local language.
Full administration is now supported in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese. |
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x509 Client Certificates - New |
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Serve secure results to users using mutually authenticated x509 client certificates. |
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SNMP Monitoring - New |
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Monitor system health and appliance crawling and serving statistics via
a standard SNMP interface. |
The Google Search Appliance offers end users
many of the same benefits they have come to expect from Google.com
with specific enterprise enhancements that make search easy,
useful and intuitive:
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Google Quality and Ranking |
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Find the highest quality and
most relevant documents; Google factors in more than 100
variables for each query. |
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Dynamic Page Summaries |
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Judge relevance of results
more easily with dynamically generated snippets showing
your query in the context of the page. |
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Results Grouping |
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Navigate search results easily
and clearly using intelligent grouping of documents residing
in the same narrow subdirectories. |
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Automatic Spellcheck |
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Avoid missing results through
typos or misspellings. Google automatically suggests corrections
with startling accuracy, even on company-specific words
and phrases. |
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Cached Pages |
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View search results even when
the sites are down via cached copies of pages included
in the search results. |
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Highlighted Query Terms |
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Quickly find the most relevant
section of a document using the highlighted query terms
displayed on cached documents. |
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View as HTML |
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Display documents without
needing the original client application of the file format
thanks to automatic reformatting of over 220
file formats into HTML. |
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Sort by Date |
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Access time-sensitive information
first via date sorting. |
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Advanced Boolean Search |
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Perform complex and sophisticated
queries with over 10 special query terms, including Boolean
AND, OR, and NOT searches. |
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SNMP Monitoring - New |
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Monitor system health and appliance
crawling and serving
statistics via a standard SNMP interface. |
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Localized Administration - New |
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Administer your Google Search
Appliance around the globe in your local language. Full
administration is now supported in English, French, Italian,
German, Spanish, and Japanese. |
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Web-Based
Admin Console
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Configure multiple
logins and administrative roles for crawling, serving,
and monitoring with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
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Unlimited
Collections
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Segment the
search index to show different results to different users
(for example, by domain name, geography, job function,
etc.)
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Filters
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Easily restrict searches
to specific languages, file types, web sites, and/or
meta tags.
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Synonyms
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Define synonyms
for company-specific acronyms or terminology and have
those terms displayed as suggested alternative queries.
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Keymatch
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Define matches
between URLs and keywords with targeted URL displayed
above the main set of search results.
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Look and
Feel
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Customize search
results layout pages using XSLT stylesheets. Provide
different branding on different areas of your site.
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Reporting
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View and export
daily and hourly result sets, top queries, special feature
usage and more.
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URL Tracking
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View analysis
of all crawled content to quickly identify problematic
servers, errors and sources of content.
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RAID Support
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Provides redundancy from
disk drive failures, increasing reliability and uptime.
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Remote Diagnostics
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Simplify maintenance
through optional remote diagnostics by Google support.
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Databases [pdf]
- New |
| |
Provide access to data stored
in your relational databases by crawling the content directly
from the database and serving the content in a number of
formats including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQLServer, MySQL,
Oracle and Sybase. |
| • |
3rd Party Content Feed API [pdf]
- New |
| |
Push non-web accessible content
into your
Google Search Appliance with a simple XML conversion. |
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Secure Content API - New |
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Search across secure content using Google's Authorization API to integrate into
existing access control systems. |
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x509 Client Certificates - New |
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Serve secure results to users
using mutually
authenticated x509 client certificates. |
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Continuous Crawler
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New content is crawled
on an ongoing basis, insuring that new content appears
in search results fast.
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Web Servers
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Provide access
to content from all of your web servers regardless of
location.
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Secure Content
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Enable secure
searching of information protected by basic HTTP authentication
or NTLM.
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Forms-Based Authentication
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Integrate with forms-based
single sign-on security systems, including Oblix and
Netegrity to enable seamless searching across secure
content
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Proxy Servers
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Include externally
hosted company content via crawling of proxy servers.
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Lotus Domino |
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Integrate with Lotus Notes
environments using fast, efficient crawling of Lotus
Domino servers.
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Meta Tags
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Deliver search
narrowing and filtering based on meta tag values and
display of meta tag values in search results.
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File Types
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Search more
than 220 file types, including
HTML, Microsoft Office, PDF, PostScript, WordPerfect,
Lotus and many others.
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Languages
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Restrict search
results to any of 28 auto-detected languages.
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Contact
sales for more information.
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