Google Search Appliance Guide to Software Release 7.0 Google Search Appliance software version 7.
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Contents Guide to Software Release 7.0 ..................................................................................... 4 New and Changed Features Entity Recognition Expert Search User Results Document Previews in Search Results Translation of Search Results Index Limit Settings Metadata Indexing Configurations Index Compressed Files Dynamic Navigation Enhancements Access Control List Enhancements Entity Biasing Configure Multiple LDAP Servers Serving Logs IPv6 Support Deprecated Features Release 7.
Guide to Software Release 7.0 This document describes features that are new or changed since version 6.14. Google Search Appliance version 7.0 updates are now available for the GB-7007 and GB-9009. For more information, visit the Google Enterprise Support site (login required). For a list of new, fixed, previous, and closed issues for software release 7.0, refer to the release notes in the Google Enterprise Support Web Site at http://www.google.com/enterprise/portal (login required).
• Release 7.0 Documentation Entity Recognition Release 7.0 introduces entity recognition, which enables the Google Search Appliance to discover interesting entities in documents with missing or poor metadata and store these entities in the search index.
Document Previews in Search Results In release 7.0 the Google Search Appliance provides document previews, which enable users to view a preview image of a document without leaving the search results. The search appliance supports document previews for Microsoft Word (doc, docx), Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt, pptx), and Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) documents. The new document preview module prepares document preview images.
Index Compressed Files Beginning with release 7.0, the Google Search Appliance supports crawling and indexing compressed files in .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, and .tgz formats. To enable the search appliance to crawl these types of compressed files, use the Crawl and Index > Crawl URLs page in the Admin Console. To learn more, click Help Center > Crawl and Index > Crawl URLs.
To configure one or more LDAP servers, use the Administration > LDAP Setup page in the Admin Console. To learn more, click Help Center > Administration > LDAP Setup. Serving Logs The Google Search Appliance records detailed information in serving logs about how it serves results for every search query. Information from serving logs can assist you in setting up a new security configuration or debugging an existing configuration.
Supported Browsers and Third-Party Software Google has certified the browsers and third-party products in the following table for use with software release 7.0. Category Product Name and Version Browsers Google Chrome 22 Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 8 and 9 Mozilla Firefox 15 and 16 Safari 5 and 6 Databases IBM DB2 MS SQL Server 2000, MS SQL Server 2005, and MS SQL Server 2008 MySQL 4.1.13 and 5.0.37. Note: Version 5.0 requires a JDBC upgrade.
Documentation Addendum This table in this section describes any changes to the Admin Console help center that do not appear in the translated versions of help pages in the product. To view these changes, visit the help center that is available from the Google Search Appliance help center. These changes will be incorporated into the next release of the Google Search Appliance software. Help Center Page Description of Change Crawl and Index > Index Settings Changed maximum amount to index to 10MB.
