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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.

• End User Features
• Enterprise Content
• Security and Access Control
• Administration and Customisation
• Content Management - New features

New Google Search Appliance version 5.0 features give users secure access to more content sources, with enhanced search quality and new user interface options.

Reach

Content Connector Framework The connector framework makes it easy for partners, developers and customers to write connectors to any content system. We have provided pre-built connectors for the following ECM systems: Microsoft SharePoint, IBM FileNet, OpenText LiveLink and EMC Documentum. Learn more about the Content Connector Framework.

Security

Google SAML Bridge - Windows Integrated Authentication Google SAML Bridge provides support for Windows Integrated Authentication. When enabled, end users will not be prompted for credential's when they enter search queries through their browser, instead the Google Search Appliance uses the same credentials that the user supplied for the Windows domain when logging in to their Windows machine.

Secure file system crawling and serving The Google Search Appliance provides support for secured crawling and serving of secured file shares.

SAML SPI enhancements The Google Search Appliance provides support for SAML SPI. With this release, we have made significant performance improvements to our SAML SPI framework and as a result, the customers who leverage SAML SPI will see improved performance on their secured search queries.

Search Quality

Date Biasing The new Date Biasing feature allows administrators to influence the search ranking based on the age of the documents. Administrators can also specify the amount of influence that Date Biasing should have in an easy-to-use web-based interface.

Google Enterprise Labs Google is continuously innovating with new search technologies that enhance the search experience. Now, owners of a Google Mini or Google Search Appliance can download these new experiments from the Google Enterprise Labs site. These innovative experiments are supported by the developer community and are not part of the Google Search Appliance or Mini release yet.

Initial labs launch features include:

Search-as-you-Type The new Search-as-you-Type feature allows users to add dynamic, real-time search to your Google Mini or Google Search Appliance user interface. Your search box will dynamically present suggestions and auto-complete queries before the user has even finished typing. In fact, we've architected the feature so that you can use Search-as-you-Type on any text input field.

Do-It-Yourself KeyMatches Let your users collaborate and improve your search results. Do-It-Yourself KeyMatch lets your users automatically promote specific web pages for certain search terms. In conventional KeyMatch, users have to ask their Google Search Appliance administrator to add the KeyMatches for them. Now, users can do it themselves in minutes. Administrators can still monitor what has been added and deleted.

Parametric Search Your content already has great metadata? Wouldn't it be nice to give your users access to that information to help refine their search results? The Google Search Appliance support for parametric search makes it easy to use that metadata. Simply plug in this AJAX-based UI component and see search in a whole new light.

The Google Search Appliance offers end users many of the same benefits that they have come to expect from Google.co.uk with specific enterprise enhancements that make search easy, useful and intuitive:

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 that they are allowed 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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