Product Features
The Google Search Appliance delivers highly relevant, fast, easy-to-use search results to users across all corporate content – including file servers, web servers, document and content management systems, and enterprise applications.
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Results Hit Clustering - New |
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Enable users to drill down on a specific subject and more easily refine their searches with automated grouping of search results by topic. |
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Source Biasing Options - New |
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Easily identify your organization's authoritative content sources to enhance the relevance of search results. |
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Google Analytics Integration - New |
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Understand how visitors are using your public website, and improve the effectiveness of your search results. |
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Auto-generate a sitemap for Google.com.au's crawler - New |
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Automatically build a sitemap you can submit to Google Webmaster Tools so that Google.com.au can discover and crawl your public website's content. |
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Enhanced Security Options - New |
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Support for NTLM version 2.0 authentication/authorization, LDAP. |
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Microsoft SharePoint Support - New |
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Index and search content residing in Microsoft SharePoint 2003 and 2007. |
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Query Expansion in Additional Languages - New |
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Increase the number of relevant search results with query stemming and synonyms dictionaries for
French, Italian, German and Spanish and Portuguese. |
The Google Search Appliance offers end users many of the same benefits they have come to expect from Google.com.au with specific enterprise enhancements that make search easy, useful and intuitive:
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Results Hit Clustering - New |
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Enable users to drill down on a specific subject and more easily refine their searches with automated grouping of search results by topic. |
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Query Expansion in Additional Languages - New |
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Increase the number of relevant search results with query stemming and synonyms dictionaries for
French, Italian, German and Spanish and Portuguese. |
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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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Google Toolbar for Enterprise |
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Put a Google search box in your corporate browser. Installer package enables deployment across your enterprise and custom search buttons enable integration with your Google Search Appliance. |
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Google Desktop for Enterprise |
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Search content on your local hard drive - files, email, IM chats, web pages viewed, etc. Integrates with the Google Search Appliance to provide search results from your computer, the intranet and the Internet in a unified interface. |
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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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Number Range Search |
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Restrict search results by a number range - makes it easy for users to restrict by price range or any other numerical value. |
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Date Range Search |
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Enables users to restrict search results to a particular date range. |
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Source Biasing Options - New |
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Easily identify your organization's authoritative content sources to enhance the relevance of search results. |
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Microsoft Sharepoint Support - New |
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Index and search content residing in Microsoft SharePoint 2003 and 2007. |
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OneBox for Enterprise [pdf] |
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Provide users with access to an infinite variety of information sources from inside or outside your company. Google OneBox for Enterprise provides a fast front end into up-to-the-minute information across enterprise applications and services -- including Cisco VOIP system, Cognos, Employease, Oracle Applications, Salesforce.com, SAS and many more. |
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External Metadata Indexing |
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Index external metadata repositories and their associated documents for easy searching across annotated and enhanced content in document and content management systems. |
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File Server Crawler |
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Natively crawl CIFS file servers as simply and easily as crawling web pages. |
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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 – content from portals, content management systems, file shares - into your Google Search Appliance with a simple XML conversion. |
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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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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. |
The Google Search Appliance provides document and user-level access control across all web-enabled enterprise content to ensure that users only see search results for documents they're permitted to access. Google's access control capabilities integrate with your existing enterprise security systems, and enforce the policy already in place in your content systems and applications.
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Secure Web Content |
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Enable secure searching of information protected by basic HTTP authentication, NTLM version 1 and 2. |
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Enterprise Single Sign-On |
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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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Secure Content API |
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Search across secure content using Google's SAML Authorization SPI to integrate into existing access control systems. |
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x509 Client Certificates |
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Serve secure results to users using mutually authenticated x509 client certificates. |
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Lotus Domino Security |
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Integrate with Lotus Notes environments using fast, efficient crawling of Lotus Domino servers. |
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Source Biasing Options - New |
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Easily identify your organization's authoritative content sources to enhance the relevance of search results. |
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Google Analytics Integration - New |
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Understand how visitors are using your public website, and improve the effectiveness of your search results. |
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Auto-generate a sitemap for Google.com.au's crawler - New |
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Automatically build a sitemap you can submit to Google Webmaster Tools so that Google.com.au can discover and crawl your public website's content. |
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SNMP Monitoring |
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Monitor system health and appliance crawling and serving statistics via a standard SNMP interface. |
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Localized Administration |
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Administer your Google Search Appliance around the globe in 16 different languages. Full administration is now supported in Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish and Swedish. |
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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 URLs 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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Google Enterprise Professional |
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Get access to Google Search Appliance experts for specialized assistance with integration and customization. |
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