Google Search Appliance Creating the Search Experience - Manual (Page 52)

Google Search Appliance: Creating the Search Experience Best Practices 52
Using People Search
In the current search appliance release, people search is deprecated.
With people search, when a user searches on a keyword, the search appliance searches any source
collection that you specify and displays people search profiles that match the search term in a sidebar
next to ranked search results.
For example, suppose a user searches for “Lee.” People search results appear in the sidebar on the
search results page, as shown in the following figure.
People search profiles can include:
• Images—Such as photos of members of your organization
• Text—Such as a member's name, job title, manager, office location, and phone number
• Links—Both images and text can be linked to web pages
The profile information that appears in people search results is derived from metadata attributes found
in the HTML of the documents in the search index, or metadata from databases, feeds, or connectors,
including the LDAP connector. If the profile information for a single person is drawn from multiple
sources, then this information must be merged into a single document before it is sent to the search
appliance.
Before configuring people search, populate the search index with content and metadata for people
search. By using metadata attributes and the Social Connect > Expert Search page, you can configure
the attribute profile information that you want to appear in search results.
For example, suppose your people database includes the following metadata attribute value pairs:
By configuring people search using this metadata, you can enable the search appliance to return people
search profiles, such as the one for Benjamin Grimm, shown in the preceding figure. For information
about how to specify attribute names on the Social Connect > Expert Search page, click Help Center >
Social Connect > Expert Search in the Admin Console.
You can enable the search appliance to return people search results by performing the following tasks:
• “Configuring People Search” on page 53
• “Showing People Search Results in a Front End” on page 53
Deprecated