Google Search Appliance Protocol Reference - Manual (Page 3)

Google Search Appliance: Search Protocol Reference 3
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 2 Request Format .......................................................................................................... 6
Request Overview 6
Using the POST Command 7
Submitting a Search Request 8
Search Request Examples (GET Command) 8
Search Request Examples (POST command) 9
Search Parameters 10
Custom Parameters 21
Query Terms 22
Special Characters: Query Term Separators 22
Special Query Terms 23
Filtering 30
Automatic Filtering 31
Language Filters 31
Internationalization 34
Character Encoding Values 35
Sorting 36
Sort By Relevance (Default) 36
Sort By Date 36
Sort by Metadata 37
Meta Tags 41
Requesting Meta Tag Values 42
Filtering by Meta Tags 43
Nested Boolean Filtering Using Meta Tags 45
Non-Alphanumeric Characters 46
Using inmeta to Filter by Meta Tags 47
Limitations 51
Chapter 3 Results Format .......................................................................................................... 52
Custom HTML 52
Custom HTML Output Overview 52
Internationalization 53
XML Output 53
XML Output Overview 54
Character Encoding Conventions 54
Google XML Results DTD 54
Google XML Tag Definitions 55