Review : Implementing the Google Search Appliance in an Intranet environment.

We used to have Inktomi's UltraSeek Server three. Nil as our intranet search engine which was beginning to seem like its age ( acquired in 1998 ). ), would not crawl our secured sites, and was no longer supported by the seller. Product data The GSA is a "black box" 1U standard rack-mountable server. For some more articles about SEO. The device has little need for a keyboard, mouse or video all you need for ordinary operation is a network wire and standard power input.

The GSA comes in different tastes to fit different wants varying by size of the hardware and correspondingly size of the license. ( Licensing is based totally on the number of URLs crawled by the appliance. ) There are three different hardware configurations ; the GB-1001, GB-5005, and GB-800. These are broken down as the following ; GB-1001 150K documents for $28K, 300K documents for $50K GB-5005 one. The Google brand power was another gigantic selling factor. But if you can get on their good side, search engines can be your largest ally when it comes to generating tons of free traffic to your business site. So, search engine "optimization" ends up either ignored or left up to highly paid mavens. To compute recognition and importance needs tons and tons of processing power. We found the crawl time would increase noticeably if there are documents ( Word, PDF, Excel, for example. After the crawl is done the collection is mechanically indexed and then checked against the Serving Must haves ( any standards you would like to use to establish if to move an indexed collection to production ) and the collection will either be moved to Production ( and therefore searchable ) or be moved to Staging. The most challenging configuration aspects for us were determining the right fusion of URL patterns to exclude from the search. After we got the crawl parameters tuned and the 1st complete crawl done we probably did some testing to see whether the crawler grabbed all the content.