Google Search Appliance Creating the Search Experience - Manual (Page 31)

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Chapter 2
Best Practices
Chapter 2
The Google Search Appliance has features that enable system administrators to enhance the search
experience for end users. This chapter describes how system administrators can follow best practices
to improve end-users searches.
Search Experience Best Practices
A Google Search Appliance can begin serving relevant results as soon as it has an index. By serving
relevant results, the search appliance ensures a positive search experience for your users. However,
you, as a search appliance administrator, can use the best practices and search appliance features
described in this document to personalize or enhance the search experience for users.
Checklist of Best Practices
Use the following table as a best practices checklist. For each best practice, the table identifies the
search appliance feature or resource to use, with a reference to the relevant section in this document.
Best Practice Feature or Resource to Use Reference
Export and analyze data about user
clicks Advanced search
reporting “Gathering Information about the
Search Experience” on page 35
Enable end users to create email
alerts for topics of interest Alerts “Providing Alerts for End Users” on
page 72
Prevent click-jacking web attacks Click-Jacking defense “Enabling/Disabling Click-Jacking
Defense” on page 67
Divide the search index into
meaningful partitions Collections “Segmenting Data in the Search
Index” on page 83
Show thumbnail images of
documents in search results Document preview
module “Providing Document Previews” on
page 79
Help user explore search results by
using specific metadata attributes Dynamic navigation “Using Dynamic Navigation to Help
Users Explore Results” on page 47
Allow users to choose results by
topic Dynamic result clusters “Using Dynamic Result Clusters to
Narrow Searches” on page 45