Google Search Appliance User Experience Guide - Manual (Page 18)

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Parameter Value Description
access s Search only secure content
a Search all content, both public and secure
The following example shows a search request with access=s.
http://GSA_HOSTNAME/search?q=google&site=default_collection&btnG=Google+Searc
h&access=s&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_
frontend&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&entsp=a__gsa_doco_policy&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-
8&ud=1&exclude_apps=1
Differences between public and secure search experience
The table below outlines specific features and data present on the search results page and how it works
with public search and contrastingly how it behaves with secure search results.
Feature Public Experience Secure Experience
Result count
Example: results 1–10
of about 4420 for query
The estimated total result count for
the search request. By default, the search appliance
doesn't provide corpus estimates to
secure search queries since this
number doesn't take into
consideration if the user can access
the documents or not. However,
since version 7.0, it's possible to
configure the search appliance to
return corpus estimates for secure
queries either globally (meaning, for
all queries), or on a per-query basis.
Use with caution as it can indicate to
users that documents exist which
contain their query but to which they
do not have access.
Pagination Normal pagination based on
estimated number of results. User
can be offered result page 1,2,3,4,
and so on.
Pagination is in the form of
“Previous” and “Next.”