Product Features
Find out how the Google Search Appliance meets your
needs for enterprise integration, offering benefits to end users
and administrators alike, click one of the links below.
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The Google Search Appliance software updates several times a year
with new capabilities to search more of your enterprise information
quickly and easily.
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Secure Search |
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The Google Search Appliance now
has the capability to crawl password-protected areas and HTTPs
content. Secure information protected by basic authentication
or NTLM is shown only to users who are authorized to see it. |
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Increased Freshness and
Capacity |
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The GB-5005 and the GB-8008 can
now perform incremental crawls on designated content, enabling
the administrator to deliver hourly updates to the search results. |
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Google quality and ranking
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For each query,Google factors
in 100 variables, including anchor text, URL patterns, fonts
and positioning data to calculate relevance. |
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Dynamic page summaries |
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Search result summaries contain
dynamically generated snippets of text that show how your query
was used on the page. |
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Results grouping |
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Multiple results from the same
subdirectory are grouped together, making search results easier
to read quickly. |
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Automatic spellchecker |
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Google's self-learning spellchecker
automatically detects misspellings and suggests corrections.
Using technology developed by Google, it is far more accurate
than industry standard software. |
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Cached pages |
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Caches copies of every page in
your index, so search results can be viewed when the original
sites are down. |
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Hit highlighting |
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Query terms are highlighted on
cached pages, allowing users to quickly find which parts of
a page are relevant to their queries. |
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View as HTML |
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Non-HTML search results are automatically
reformatted as HTML, enabling users a quick glimpse at the content
without having to launch the original application in which the
content was created. |
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Sort by date |
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Enables users to get at time-sensitive
information first. Dates can be identified in any international
format. |
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Advanced boolean search |
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Offers more than 10 special query
terms for advanced search functionality and supports Boolean
AND, OR, and NOT searches. |
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Web-based Admin Console |
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The admin console supports multiple
logins and administrative roles for crawling, serving, and monitoring
with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. |
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Subcollections |
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Categorize searches according
to URL patterns. |
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Synonyms |
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Define synonyms for company-specific
acronyms or terminology and have those terms be displayed as
suggested alternative queries. |
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Keymatch |
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Define matches between URLs and
keywords so that the targeted URL displays above the main set
of search results. |
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Look and Feel |
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Search results customizable using
XSLT stylesheets. |
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Reporting |
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Web-based reports show daily
and hourly result sets, top queries, special feature usage,
and more. Easily export the reports for use in other reporting
tools. |
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URL Tracking |
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Analyzes all crawled content
and hosts, making it easy for administrators to identify problematic
servers, errors, and sources of content. |
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Remote Diagnostics |
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Comes equipped with a modem connection
for remote maintenance by Google support if necessary. |
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Web Servers |
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The Google Search Appliance maps
all the web documents on your network accessible via hypertext
transfer protocol (HTTP) in a process known as crawling, then
creates an index of those documents. |
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Secure Search |
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The Google Search Appliance has
the capability to crawl password-protected areas and HTTPs content.
Secure information protected by basic authentication or NTLM
is shown only to users who have access authorization. |
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Proxy Servers |
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Crawls content located behind
proxy servers. |
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Lotus Domino |
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Fast, efficient crawling of Lotus
Domino servers. |
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Meta Tags |
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Supports standard meta tag fields,
enabling search narrowing and filtering based on meta tag values.
Also can return meta tag data for display in search results.
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File Types |
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Search more than 200 file types,
including HTML, Microsoft Office, PDF, PostScript, WordPerfect,
Lotus, and many others. |
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Languages |
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Able to restrict searches to
any one of 28 languages. |
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