Google Search Appliance Creating the Search Experience - Manual (Page 3)

Google Search Appliance: Creating the Search Experience 3
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 7
About this Document 7
What Is the Search Experience? 8
What Is Personalization? 9
Focusing on End Users 9
Starting with a Basic Search Experience 9
Customizing the Basic Search Experience 11
Creating Multiple Search Experiences 11
Managing the Search Experience 13
Using Collections with Front Ends 14
Maximum Number of Front Ends and Collections 15
Improving Searches 15
Suggesting Alternative Search Terms 16
Guiding End Users to Specific URLs 17
Narrowing Searches 17
Widening Searches 18
Enhancing Search Results 19
Integrating Real-Time Data 20
Providing Expert Profiles with Search Results 21
Giving Users the Ability to Add Results 21
Showing Document Previews 21
Including Content from Google Apps with Search Results 21
Refining Search Results 22
Removing Specific URLs from Results 22
Influencing Results Ranking 23
Enabling Alerts 23
Changing the User Interface 24
Where Is the Search Experience Created? 25
Elements Defined in the Front End 26
Elements Defined on Other Admin Console Pages 27
Built-In Elements 27
Search Experience Background 28
Entering a Search Query 28
Converting the Search Query HTML to a URL 28
Executing the Search 29
Returning Search Results as XML 29
Applying an XSLT Stylesheet to the XML Results and Create HTML Output 30
Presenting Search Results to the End User 30