Skip to main content

Posts Tagged ‘GSA Connectors’

Perficient Adds 6th GSA Qualified Deployment Specialist

I would like to congratulate Anu Pidaparti, Lead Technical Consultant, for achieving her Google Search Appliance (GSA) Qualified Deployment Specialist certification.  Anu is the 6th GSA Qualified Deployment Specialist on our Google team. The 4-part certification process is rigorous and designed to validate the experience of individuals among search partners. The qualification process includes certification […]

Fifth Google Search Appliance (GSA) Qualified Deployment Specialist Certified

Today, we welcome Alok Gupta, technical architect, to an elite membership in Perficient’s Google practice. He is the 5th person to receive the GSA certified deployment specialist designation. The 4-part certification process is rigorous and designed to validate the experience of individuals among search partners. The qualification process includes certification in core GSA fundamentals and […]

Plexi (Part 2) – Adaptors are evil!

UPDATE 2014-07-02: Adaptors are not really evil.  We are currently developing both Connectors and Adaptors.  The point of these articles is to help you draw your own conclusions.  : ) Previously I discussed the Plexi Adaptor framework for the Google Search Appliance. Adaptors can provide a simple and elegant way to index a content repository.  An Adaptor sits in front of a […]

Plexi: GSA adaptors for non-HTTP content repositories

The Google Search Appliance has historically required Connectors to facilitate the indexing of non-HTTP content repositories.  A Connector is a program that sits between the GSA and a repository, and pushes the GSA everything it needed to know to index the repository (including the content, metadata, and security information).  A Connector can use any technique to interrogate the repository […]

Finding your Organization’s Hidden Metadata

If you read Chad Johnson’s recent post, Why do I need metadata?, you may be thinking: “Metadata sounds great in theory but the level of effort is too high!” I won’t deny the value of metadata entered carefully by hand, but it can be very labor-intensive to do this for large body of content. Fortunately, with Google Search Appliance […]