GSA 6.0 for your Organization
Wednesday, June 03, 2009: Figuring out how to navigate the complex content systems of large organisations is a tough problem, Google has come up with the latest version of the Google Search Appliance — GSA 6.0, which has the capacity to search billions of documents. So whether you own a small business with a few thousand docs or belong to a huge organisation with a billion, the GSA can search them all.
Even if the content you need lives in a bunch of different departments or locations, in all kinds of formats, languages and repositories, the GSA makes searching within your organisation as simple as searching on Google.com, according to the company. It also has helpful features like user-added results and query suggestions, that aggregate knowledge across the organisation for more precise search results.
Additionally, cross-language enterprise search also enables enterprise users across the globe to translate their search results in real-time — into whichever language they choose.
GSA 6.0 is full of customisation features, as well as flexible security policies so that each enterprise or large organisations can tweak the settings to suit its needs. Ranking Framework, Node Biasing and Collection Biasing allow you to fine-tune search results to your needs. The new Administrative API provides more control for automation of common tasks, and GSA 6.0 now supports both early and late binding, so search results can be screened according to company security policies.
Google believes that setting your enterprise up with the GSA can save you tons of employee hours spent looking for data — letting you focus on the actual work to be done.
According to Dave Girouard, president, Google Enterprise, “With the GSA 6.0, it’s easy for companies to give all employees the powerful Google search experience inside their business — even if they are searching amongst billions of documents in dispersed intranets, data stores, languages or geographies. With the improved architecture and software for the search appliance, global businesses can provide secure search across the largest enterprise content repositories — with one GSA system that can scale to billions of documents without limits.”
