Google Search Appliance 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.

End User Features
Administration and Customization
Enterprise Content

What's New Snapshot

End User Features

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:

• Google Quality and Ranking
Find the highest quality and most relevant documents; Google factors in more than 100 variables for each query.

• Dynamic Page Summaries
Judge relevance of results more easily with dynamically generated snippets showing your query in the context of the page.

• Results Grouping
Navigate search results easily and clearly using intelligent grouping of documents residing in the same narrow subdirectories.

• Automatic Spellcheck
Avoid missing results through typos or misspellings. Google automatically suggests corrections with startling accuracy, even on company-specific words and phrases.

• Cached Pages
View search results even when the sites are down via cached copies of pages included in the search results.

• Highlighted Query Terms
Quickly find the most relevant section of a document using the highlighted query terms displayed on cached documents.

• View as HTML
Display documents without needing the original client application of the file format thanks to automatic reformatting of over 220 file formats into HTML.

• Sort by Date
Access time-sensitive information first via date sorting.

• Advanced Boolean Search
Perform complex and sophisticated queries with over 10 special query terms, including Boolean AND, OR, and NOT searches.

Administration and Customization

• SNMP Monitoring - New
Monitor system health and appliance crawling and serving statistics via a standard SNMP interface.

• Localized Administration - New
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.

• Web-Based Admin Console
Configure multiple logins and administrative roles for crawling, serving, and monitoring with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.

• Unlimited Collections
Segment the search index to show different results to different users (for example, by domain name, geography, job function, etc.)

• Filters
Easily restrict searches to specific languages, file types, web sites, and/or meta tags.

• Synonyms
Define synonyms for company-specific acronyms or terminology and have those terms displayed as suggested alternative queries.

• Keymatch
Define matches between URLs and keywords with targeted URL displayed above the main set of search results.

• Look and Feel
Customize search results layout pages using XSLT stylesheets. Provide different branding on different areas of your site.

• Reporting
View and export daily and hourly result sets, top queries, special feature usage and more.

• URL Tracking
View analysis of all crawled content to quickly identify problematic servers, errors and sources of content.

• RAID Support
Provides redundancy from disk drive failures, increasing reliability and uptime.

• Remote Diagnostics
Simplify maintenance through optional remote diagnostics by Google support.

Enterprise Content

• 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.

• Secure Content API - New
Search across secure content using Google's Authorization API to integrate into existing access control systems.

• x509 Client Certificates - New
Serve secure results to users using mutually authenticated x509 client certificates.
• Continuous Crawler

New content is crawled on an ongoing basis, insuring that new content appears in search results fast.

• Web Servers
Provide access to content from all of your web servers regardless of location.

• Secure Content
Enable secure searching of information protected by basic HTTP authentication or NTLM.

• Forms-Based Authentication
Integrate with forms-based single sign-on security systems, including Oblix and Netegrity to enable seamless searching across secure content

• Proxy Servers
Include externally hosted company content via crawling of proxy servers.

• Lotus Domino
Integrate with Lotus Notes environments using fast, efficient crawling of Lotus Domino servers.

• Meta Tags
Deliver search narrowing and filtering based on meta tag values and display of meta tag values in search results.

• File Types
Search more than 220 file types, including HTML, Microsoft Office, PDF, PostScript, WordPerfect, Lotus and many others.

• Languages
Restrict search results to any of 28 auto-detected languages.