GSA Advantages over a Mini Appliance

Search Appliance Features

New! Metadata Biasing Options 
Bias your search results based on metadata - such as file type, author, etc.      
New! Advanced Reporting 
Track every query and every click from every user      
New! Native Support for Kerberos
Leverage Kerberos to provide silent authentication experience with various content systems

New! Alerts

Employees can subscribe to email alerts for topics and documents of interest, choosing an hourly, daily, or weekly alert schedule

New! Personalized search results

New scoring policies allow administrators to adjust search results for different user groups, based on department or function

Databases 
Search data stored in your relational databases by crawling the content directly from the database.  Supported databases include Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQLServer, MySQL, and Sybase. 

3rd party content feeds 
Search non-web accessible content from portals, content management systems, or file shares by pushing it into your Google Search Appliance with a simple XML conversion.

Connector framework  
The connector framework allows you to natively crawl and search SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, OpenText, and LiveLink.  For other systems, you can use solutions provided by partners or create your own connectors.

Dynamic Result Clustering Enable users to drill down on a specific subject and more easily refine their searches with automated grouping of search results by topic.      

Query expansion 
Improve relevancy and generate additional search results with query stemming and synonyms dictionaries for English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, and Portuguese.      

RAID Support 
Redundancy from disk drive failures, increasing reliability and uptime.

Enterprise Single Sign-On  
Integrate with forms-based single sign-on security systems, including Oblix and Netegrity, to enable seamless searching across secure content.      

Secure Content API  
Search across secure content using Google's SAML Authorization SPI to integrate into existing access control systems.  

x509 Client Certificates  
Serve secure results to users using mutually authenticated x509 client certificates.      

Lotus Domino Security  
Integrate with Lotus Notes environments using fast, efficient crawling of Lotus Domino servers.