Google Search Appliance Guide to Software Release 7.0 - Manual (Page 5)

Google Search Appliance: Guide to Software Release 7.0 5
• Release 7.0 Documentation
Entity Recognition
Release 7.0 introduces entity recognition, which enables the Google Search Appliance to discover
interesting entities in documents with missing or poor metadata and store these entities in the search
index. Once the entities are indexed, you can enhance keyword search by adding the entities in dynamic
navigation, which uses metadata in documents and entities discovered by entity recognition to enable
users to browse search results by using specific attributes.
To configure entity recognition, use the new Crawl and Index > Entity Recognition page in the Admin
Console. To learn more, click Help Center > Crawl and Index > Entity Recognition.
Expert Search
New in release 7.0 is expert search, which enables your users find experts in your organization by
searching on keywords. For example, suppose a user needs to find an expert on network security. When
the user searches on this term, a list of network security 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 collection that contains only
profile information. Data sources for this collection can include Microsoft SharePoint, LDAP, or any
other profile content with metadata that can be crawled or fed into the search index.
You can determine the profile elements and their layout in both the sidebar and on the detail page
when you configure expert search. Because expert search is configured by front end, you can create
different configurations for that address the needs and levels of different end users.
To configure expert search, use the new Social Connect > Expert Search page in the Admin Console. To
learn more, click Help Center > Social Connect > Expert Search.
Take note that people search is deprecated in release 7.0. However, for compatibility with previous
releases, people search options are available from the Social Connect > Expert Search page.
User Results
In previous releases, the Google Search Appliance supported basic user-added results, which gave your
users the capability of creating unmoderated search results. Starting with release 7.0, the enhanced
user results feature replaces basic user-added results.
The new feature enables you to add user results configurations, where you can specify whether user
results are moderated, that is, they require administrator approval before appearing in search results,
and which front ends use the configuration. Because a user result configuration can be associated with
one or more front ends, you can create multiple configurations with different settings and associate
them with separate front ends.
To add user results configurations, use the new Social Connect > User Results page in the Admin
Console. To learn more, click Help Center > Social Connect > User Results.