Google Search Appliance User Experience Guide User Manual
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Snippet generation: A snippet is a small section of text in a search result. In
some cases, you might see search results where snippets have not been
generated for some documents. Use snippet generation to restore missing
snippets for these documents. You can also edit the length of the search result
snippets here.
Link Results: Allows administrators to configure the number of returned results
when using a “link” query. The query prefix
link:
lists web pages that have links
to the specified web page.
Spelling: By default the search appliance will not provide spelling suggestions
for words that are either marked, internally, as bad words or that are diacritical
equivalent. You can use the spelling settings under query expansion to allow
diacritical equivalence in spelling suggestions and to allow bad words to have
spelling suggestions.
Dynamic navigation
This extremely powerful feature helps users explore search results by using
specific metadata attributes. When a user clicks on an attribute value, the
search results are filtered to contain results from the original search query
which also have that specific attribute value. You can also configure ranges to
allow users to search over date or price ranges. The attribute name-bars are
clickable. When clicked, this opens up an autocomplete search box through
which the user can search over all the attribute values. This search is a
'contains' search. Dynamic navigation also supports adding attributes based
on entities discovered by
Document Previews
This productivity improving feature enables users to view a preview image of a
document’s pages without leaving the search results. Users on any device
(mobile, tablet, desktop) can open and review documents right in the browser
without having to have the native application installed. The search appliance
supports document previews for Microsoft Word (doc, docx), Microsoft
PowerPoint (ppt, pptx), and Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
documents.
Translation
Harnessing the power of Google Translate, this feature gives users the ability
to translate titles and snippets in search results, as well as cached documents,
into the user’s language in real time. The user’s language is determined by the
default language set in the user’s browser. Please note that internet
connectivity to Google Translate is required as the translation does not occur
on the GSA.
Expert Search
(sidebar element)
Expert search is a feature which enables your users to find experts in your
organization by searching on keywords. When the user searches on a term, a
list of experts appears in a sidebar next to the search results. The list might
include photos, names, and phone numbers. There might also be a more
detailed list of experts on a separate page that is linked to the search results
page. Experts in your organization are identified by metadata that resides in a