Manual
Table Of Contents
- Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance
- Contents
- Introduction
- Planning
- Setting Up
- Crawling and Indexing
- Search Experience
- Using Features to Enhance the Search Experience
- Using Front Ends
- Forcing Specific Documents to the Top of Search Results
- Suggesting Alternative Search Terms along with Results
- Grouping Search Results by Topic
- Providing Options for Navigating Search Results
- Displaying Expert Profiles with Search Results
- Providing Real-Time Connectivity to Business Applications
- Integrating Personal Content from Google Apps
- Restricting Search Results
- Controlling Automatic Searching of Synonyms
- Influencing Results Rankings
- Segmenting the Index
- Providing User Results
- Enabling User Alerts
- Displaying Translations of Search Results
- Showing Document Previews in Search Results
- Customizing the User Interface
- Collecting Metrics about User Clicks
- Essentials
- Using the Admin Console
- Using Language Options
- Extending Universal Search
- Monitoring a Search Appliance
- Getting Help
- Quick Reference
- Index
Google Search Appliance: Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance Introduction 7
Read more about the Google Search Appliance features and functions that interest you by clicking the
links within this document to navigate to relevant documents in the library of public Google Search
Appliance documentation.
Also, for essential information about deploying a Google Search Appliance, see the Google Search
Appliance “Notes from the Field,” http://support.google.com/gsa/bin/answer.py?answer=2721831.
What Is Universal Search?
Universal search is the ability to search all content in an enterprise through a single search box.
Although content sources might reside in different locations, such as on a corporate network, on a
desktop, or on the World Wide Web, they appear in a single, integrated set of search results.
The following figure presents a graphical overview of universal search.
Providing Universal Search with a Google Search
Appliance
Your goal is to deliver universal search to your users. The two major aspects of providing universal
search with a Google Search Appliance are: