1. Search Party Finding a Google Appliance Solution Shawn Lee Sri Ranganathan Melissa Rubik Leslie Sherman

2. Agenda Introduction to the GSA The IPHE Bulletin Search Solution Demo Finding More Information

3. What is the GSA? Google Search Appliance The power of Google Search in a box Full control

4. Unique Features Ingests non-public content (databases, file shares) Customizable crawl schedule Feeding (vs. crawling) Sorting by metadata Dynamic/faceted navigation Wildcard search Collections Document preview

5. AITS GSA Current Uses – SitePublish – Academic Catalogs (CourseLeaf) – IPHE Bulletin Potential Uses – Universal UA search

6. Licensing 2 years, $29K 500,000 indexed documents FigLeaf (Google Enterprise Partner)

12. What is the IPHE Bulletin? Illinois Public Higher Education (IPHE) Procurement Bulletin All 13 State Universities and the Illinois Math and Science Academy post notices for upcoming bids, requests for proposal, requests for information, solicitation documents, and awards

13. IPHE Bulletin – Two Sites in One Public site – Allows vendors to search and browse for currently active and historical procurement notifications Private site – allows buyers and other state employees to publish procurement notifications – Includes an advanced and basic search

14. Why did the Bulletin choose the GSA? Data is stored in multiple databases, xml files and html files Need to replace the old search – combined data from ColdFusion Verity and database queries ColdFusion SOLR replacement provided inconsistent results GSA provides robust features

15. Selling Features of the GSA Dynamic Navigation Ability to feed data instead of crawling Synonyms Spell Check Query suggestion Customizable Frontend

16. GSA Front End Default Front EndsCustomizable Pieces

17. Bulletin Data The Bulletin has two collections of data that need to be kept separate – Public Website – Private Website

18. Indexing Bulletin Data Bulletin data is not contained in static pages – Feeding vs. Crawling Data

19. The Public Bulletin and the GSA Public Side Frontend Considerations – Security – XML

20. The Public Bulletin and the GSA Public Side Frontend Considerations – Customizing the GSA frontend – Custom results using metadata

21. The Private Bulletin and the GSA Private Side Backend Considerations – Security – XML

22. The Private Bulletin and the GSA Private Side Frontend Considerations – Advanced Search – Custom results using metadata

23. Demo Public Side Private Side

24. Public Side

25. Search Box

26. Result Page – Pagination, Metadata, Filter

27. Result Page – Search Within Results

28. Search Within Results Page

29. Suggestions

30. Oops!!! Spelt it wrong

31. Search - Browse Tree

32. Browse Search Results Page

33. Private Side

34. Private Side – Search Integrated with To-Do list

35. Private Side – Quick Search

36. Results Page – Pagination, Metadata, Filter

37. Oops!! Spelled it wrong again

38. Advanced Search

39. Advanced Search – With Results Page

40. Finding More Information GSA Documentation – https://developers.google.com/search- appliance/documentation/614/ https://developers.google.com/search- appliance/documentation/614/ GSA Training – YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/gsatraining/videos – FigLeaf http://training.figleaf.com/Courses/googlesearch.cfm

41. Questions?