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Drupal and Google Search Appliance (Google Mini)

I have a Druapl site with pages indexed by a google mini search appliance. The earlier in the week I noticed that a bunch of links were marked as indexed, but excluded because there was a 'print this page' link back to the same page and had a rel="nofollow". I took the nofollow out and let the GSA reindex the site 2 days ago. Now, the...

Google Search Appliances versus Microsoft Enterprise Search (FAST)

I am .NET developer and I have been working with various search providers but Google Search Appliance/Mini has been always the best fit for requirements when implementing enterprise level search. I have not worked yet on Microsoft Enterprise Search so I would like to hear developers experiences on it. These days I am getting a lot Enter...

Google GSA Stems for scandinavian languages

I have installed Scandinavia-2.1-1 language bundle to our GSA. After that I expected to find those languages available in Query Expansion, but nope nothing new there. Am I missing something? How are you other Scandinavians handling stems for your language? ...

Implementing Google Search Appliance results into website

I’m interested to hear peoples preferred methods or approaches to implementing the search results from a Google Search Appliance into an existing website. More specifically how do people prefer to implement/embed the search results into their existing site and persist the surrounding website elements (menus, membership etc) around the se...

Google Search Appliance - Automatic sitemap generation

Hi there, We have recently installed a Google Search Appliance in order to power our internal search (via the java api), and all seems to be well, however I have a question regarding 'automatic' site-map generation that im hoping you guys may know the answer to. We are aware of the GSA's ability to auto-generate site maps for each of i...

Software alternatives to Google Search Appliance (GSA)

I am interested in software alternatives to the Google Search Appliance (GSA) for use in a (large) university context. Has anyone experiences of migrating from GSA to an alternative solution? If so, what were the reasons for doing this (technical, financial, staff effort, etc) and have the experiences been positive? ...