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Google Search Appliance Creating the Search Experience User Manual

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Google Search Appliance: Creating the Search Experience

Contents

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Chapter 2

Best Practices ............................................................................................................ 31

Search Experience Best Practices

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Checklist of Best Practices

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Personalizing the Search Experience

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The Relationship Between the Search Experience and Front Ends

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Creating Multiple Front Ends

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Gathering Information about the Search Experience

35

Viewing Detailed Data about User Clicks

35

Using Advanced Search Reporting to Personalize the Search Experience

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Generating an Advanced Search Report

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Using the Automatic Self-Learning Scorer

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Using KeyMatches to Guide Users to URLs

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Working with KeyMatches

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Identifying KeyMatches

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Changing the Appearance of KeyMatches

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Using Related Queries to Suggest Alternative Searches

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Working with Related Queries

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Identifying Related Queries

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Changing the Appearance of Related Queries

44

Using Dynamic Result Clusters to Narrow Searches

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Enabling or Disabling Dynamic Result Clusters

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Using Dynamic Navigation to Help Users Explore Results

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Dynamic Navigation for Secure Search

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Enabling Dynamic Navigation

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Creating a Configuration and Adding Attributes

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Showing Dynamic Navigation in a Front End

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Configuring Query Expansion for Dynamic Navigation

50

Providing Expert Search for Users

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Configuring Data Sources for Expert Search

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Enabling and Configuring Expert Search

51

Using People Search

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Experimenting with Host Crowding Options

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Using Filters to Restrict Search Results

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Working with Filters

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Restricting Search Results by Domain Name

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Restricting Search Results by Language

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Restricting Search Results by File Type

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Restricting Search Results by Meta Tag

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Removing URLs from Search Results

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Using Query Expansion to Widen Searches

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Working with Query Expansion Files

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Setting the Query Expansion Policy for a Front End

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Enabling Translation of Search Results

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Changing Languages for Query Expansion and Spelling Suggestions

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Enabling/Disabling Click-Jacking Defense

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Using OneBox Modules to Integrate Structured Results

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Using Result Biasing to Influence Result Ranking

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Working with Result Biasing

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Using Source Biasing

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Using Date Biasing

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Using Metadata and Entity Biasing

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Providing Alerts for End Users

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Enabling Alerts

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Showing the My Alerts Link

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