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Search Appliance Documentation

New or revised administrator documentation

Planning for Search Appliance Installation
Prepare to install a Google Search Appliance or Google Mini by gathering information, considering content preparation needs, and preparing the physical site.

Administering Crawl for Web and File Share Content
Learn how the search appliance crawls documents, get the details on content preparation, and configure the crawl process. This document replaces older documents that were previously available on the Enterprise support site.

Managing Search for Controlled-Access Content
Understand authentication and authorization features and find out how to make controlled-access content available to the right users.

Constructing URL Patterns
Learn how to set up the URL patterns that control the search appliance crawler.

Developer documentation

Search Protocol Reference
The HTTP-based search protocol gives search administrators control over the way that search results are requested and presented to end users. For Google Search Appliance and Google Mini.

OneBox for Enterprise Developer's Guide
The OneBox API enables you to pass queries that match a defined pattern to an external system, and have the results appear above other search results. See also OneBox Design Principles. For Google Search Appliance and Google Mini.

Authentication/Authorization for Enterprise SPI Guide: 
Using the security SPI, you can integrate the Google Search Appliance with SAML-based web services to provide secure search results, filtered based on a user's access credentials. For Google Search Appliance.

Feeds Developer's Guide
Use the feeds protocol to write a custom feed client that supplies data to the Google Search Appliance for indexing and serving. For Google Search Appliance.

External Metadata Indexing Guide
Configure the Google Search Appliance to index metadata that is not stored directly in the primary document and make the metadata searchable. For Google Search Appliance.

Copies of the online help

These help systems reflect the last-shipped version, plus bug fixes. The links in the upper right corner (Back to Home, Help Center, and Log Out) are not functional in this copy of the help files, and apply only to the search appliance.

Google Search Appliance, software version 4.6.4.G70

Google Mini, software version 4.6.4.G66

 

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