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Your company’s internal and external websites can be highly effective communication tools if staff members can find the documents they need, when they need them. Unfortunately, that’s frequently not the case. Documents are filed and forgotten, mislabeled, or put in the wrong directory. Employees leave and leave no trace of the documents they’ve created. The result is valuable information that can’t be accessed by others.

With the Google Search Appliance, your company’s search capability (internal sites, external sites or both) can be just as good as Google’s – and just as easy to use. Google takes the burden of organizing information off the administrator and provides an easy solution that gets great results every time.

Making Life Simple for Administrators
By integrating hardware and software, Google simplifies the administration of search in your organization. With a startup procedure that takes about ten minutes, the Google Search Appliance is truly plug-and-play. And once it’s up and running, it’s easily maintained by a single administrator. That ease of use is entirely by design.

Google set out to create an intelligent product that “just works,” from an intuitive web-based control console to automated adjustment of relevancy rankings and spell check terms specific to your company. And Google’s unique document ranking system provides high-quality search results without the manual adjustments to content required by other corporate search solutions. The result is a powerful search engine as easy to use as the one millions of Google users search with every day.

Information You Didn’t Know You Had
Google built its reputation on finding more and better information than anyone else in the business. That experience has been built into the Google Search Appliance and once you plug it into your network, you’ll be astounded at how much content it uncovers. From sales collateral and market research to engineering documents and customer service repositories, the Google Search Appliance puts all the data on your network one click away.

Google also helps you understand your company’s network by tracking and analyzing URLs across all your servers– helping you discover which hosts have the most content, which pages are missing because of robots.txt, and even which pages contain broken links.

Tailored for Company Networks
The Google Search Appliance retrieves the most common kinds of information found on company networks, including Microsoft Office documents, PDF, PostScript, and dozens of other filetypes. Google also searches Lotus Domino files, content management systems, SSL-protected servers, and proxy servers.

Features

End User Experience

PageRankTM Analyzes the link structure of your intranet to determine the most important, highest
quality pages across all your sites.

Hypertext Analysis For each query, factors in 100 variables, including anchor text, URL patterns, fonts,
and positioning data to calculate relevance, which combined with the PageRank rating determines
the order of the results returned.

Dynamic Page Summaries Search result summaries contain dynamically generated snippets of text
that display query terms in the context of the page that is being returned, enabling users to better
judge relevancy before clicking on a chosen result.

Results Grouping Multiple results from the same subdirectory are grouped together, improving navigation
and clarity of search results.

Automatic Spellcheck Google’s highly advanced self-learning spellcheck algorithm automatically
detects misspellings and suggests corrections specific to your company’s own words and phrases.

Cached Pages Stores cached copies of every page in the index, so search results can be viewed when
the original sites are down.

Hit Highlighting When viewing cached pages, query terms are highlighted in color, allowing users to
quickly find which part of the page is relevant to their query.

View as HTML Non-HTML search results are automatically reformatted to provide an HTML option that
can be viewed by any browser, enabling users to access information even when the native application
is not available.

Sort By Date Enables users to search for time-sensitive information. Dates can be identified in any
international format from either the last-modified date, page title, page body or meta tags.

Simple Search Delivers superior results for single word, multi-word and phrase queries as well as natural
language requests, giving users a simple way to find information regardless of how they prefer to search.

Advanced Search Offers more than 10 special query terms for advanced search functionality and supports
Boolean AND, OR, and NOT searches.

Content

Web Servers The Google Search Appliance maps all the web documents on your network accessible
via hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), then creates an index of those documents.

Secure Content Crawls password protected areas and HTTPs content.
Proxy Servers Crawls content located behind proxy servers.

Lotus Domino Collapses Lotus Domino URL space for fast, efficient crawling of Domino servers.
Meta Tags 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.

File Types Search over 200+ file types, including HTML, Microsoft Office, PDF, Postscript, WordPerfect,
Lotus, and many others.

Languages Able to restrict searches to any one of 28 languages.

Administration and Customization

Web-based Admin Console The admin console supports multiple logins and administrative roles for
crawling, serving, and monitoring with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.

Subcollections Categorize searches according to URL patterns.

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

Keymatch Defines matches between URLs and keywords so that the targeted URL displays above the
main set of search results.

Look and Feel Search results are customizable using XSLT stylesheets.

Reporting 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.

URL Tracking Analyses all crawled content and hosts, making it easy for administrators to identify
problem servers, errors, and sources of content.

Remote Diagnostics Comes equipped with a modem connection for remote maintenance by Google
support if necessary.