Google Search Appliance (GSA)
The Google Search Appliance delivers fast, relevant and secure access to information. It is capable of increasing the velocity of modern business. The Google Search Appliance takes Google's core search technology and optimizes it for business use. It also provides universal search capabilities across a variety of internal and external sources, including file shares, intranets, databases, applications, hosted services and content management systems. The Google Search Appliance makes all of the information that employees need to be productive accessible through one easy-to-use search box.
What the Google Search Appliance Does
The Google Search Appliance makes the sea of lost and misplaced data on your web servers, file servers, content management systems, relational databases and business applications instantly accessible from a simple enterprise search box. This box is familiar to users because they often see it at Google.com.au. Through an interface as simple and intuitive as Google.com, your employees will have instant, real-time, secure access to all the information available across your entire enterprise. This information is accessible in more than 220 different file formats and in over 109 different languages.
With the all-new Google OneBox for Enterprise feature, your employees can also access information from all business applications, including employee directories, calendars, CRM, ERP and business intelligence.
How GSA Works
When a customer or employee types in an enterprise search query, the Google Search Appliance crawls your content and creates a master index of documents that's ready for instant retrieval using Google's enterprise search technology. The Google Search Appliance can index millions documents, and its security features ensure that users can only access the information that they have permission to view. The Google Search Appliance is easy to set up and requires minimal ongoing administration, making it extremely cost-effective.
Google Search Appliance Feature Overview
- Document Count up to 30,000,000
- Discover and index content on web servers
- Support for 220+ web-enabled file formats
- Easy-to-use Google end user experience
- Search using natural language and Boolean expressions
- Unlimited number of collections to segment documents
- KeyMatch functionality to designate top enterprise search results
- Web-based administrator console
- Intelligent, real-time content crawling for fastest content updating
- Unlimited enterprise search results interfaces
- Support for HTTP Basic, LDAP, NTLM v1 and v2 security
- Localized administrator console (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese)
- Google OneBox for Enterprise – integration with enterprise apps
- Integration with Google Analytics
- Auto-generate a sitemap for Google.com.au's crawler
- Support for security authentication/authorization via Single Sign-on Systems
- Support for content from relational databases
- Direct integration with content management systems
- Support for 3rd party content feeds
- Automated query expansion (context-sensitive stemming, automated synonyming)
- Index external metadata sources
- Appliance monitoring via standard SNMP interface
- RAID disk drive failover
- Built-in clustered redundancy (some models)
- Premium support offering available
- Results hit clustering
- Source biasing options
- Connector for indexing content in Microsoft Sharepoint
