Run the search engine on your own computer—Google Search Server virtual version released
Author：Eve Cole
Update Time：2009-06-20 16:55:04
Posted by: Google China Engineer Tong Wenchao and Chen Yongsheng
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. For information that is behind the firewall and cannot be accessed by Google's search crawlers, we provide Google Search Server
Appliance (hereinafter referred to as GSA) overall software and hardware solution. GSA
It can conduct efficient and safe universal searches for web pages, documents, databases and other related information owned by enterprises, universities, etc., and supports more than 220 file formats. With GSA latest 5.2
With the release of GSA version, we simultaneously released a pure software version of GSA running in a virtual machine around the world - Google Search Server Virtual Edition (Google Search Appliance
virtual edition (hereinafter referred to as GSAve).
Today, people all over the world can download GSAve from here for free, run their own search engines on their own computers, and use it to crawl and index their own websites, blogs, databases, and network folders.
GSAve inherits GSA's powerful search capabilities and programming interface. Google encourages programmers to use the interface provided by GSAve to develop some interesting search experiences suitable for special intranet environments.
- Using the connector management tool, GSAve can be used to crawl and index non-Web network resources, such as documents stored in Sharepoint.
- Using the Feed API and metadata search function, you can build a search function for your own online forum (BBS).
- You can use the Onebox programming interface to provide real-time data in search results pages.
- GSA's powerful secure search function supports multiple identity authentication methods, allowing users to see only documents they have permission to access in search results.
- We have designed a special web page ranking algorithm specifically for small-scale document sets.
- Users can customize GSA's search results interface and even integrate it into your own applications in XML format.
We have established a sub-forum on Google Groups where GSA users from around the world share their experiences. If you have any suggestions and feedback about Google Search Server Virtual Edition, you can directly send an email to [email protected] to tell us.
GSA provides us Googlers with a powerful intranet search, and we hope to provide this pleasant search experience to more users so that everyone can access and benefit from it.
