Posts Tagged ‘gsa’

In 2009, our Google Search Appliance practice was a practice of one – me.  By the end of the year, Shruti Sundaresh had joined me as a co-developer on our first large project.  Her programming skills and experience with web content management systems and data migrations were invaluable.  Shruti has recently started to transform our GSA practice […]

I’ll get this out of the way quickly — there is no such thing as a typical GSA implementation. With that said, I have been involved in scoping and delivering around 250 GSA implementations, and some averages and trends have emerged.  Most projects involve the same five core phases: Design and Requirements, Hardware and Security, Content […]

Google includes a comprehensive, HTML-based Admin Console for making changes to the Google Search Appliance configuration.  Adding KeyMatches, changing crawl URL patterns, exporting reports, etc.  This works very well during development and for making minor changes thereafter.  But in a large, complex deployment, it is often desirable to script changes or write code to do them automatically. […]

  You’ve heard that saying before, right? Okay, it’s slightly different than the original one, which refers to IBM (one of our partners, too). But it’s true: to our knowledge, no client has ever regretted their implementation of the Google Search Appliance (GSA) solution. In fact, it’s quite the contrary. We consistently hear positive feedback […]

  In marketing, the amount of traffic to a website, blog, or other digital asset is important. Generally speaking, the more the merrier. It often defines success. What if I were to tell you that the same goes for your Intranet portals? You know, the places you go to search your company’s research papers, clinical […]

  One of the most common questions we hear from clients is “What file formats can Google Search Appliance (GSA) index?” Since so many people are curious, we decided to share the answer with you in our blog. It goes a little something like this: The number of file formats GSA can index is incredible. […]

  Now that August is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in July – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 

Setting up a web crawler in the Google Search Appliance is a piece of cake — you enter a starting URL and some boundaries and let it rip.  The GSA will spider its way around until it finds every reachable page in the site.  For a well-structure site, this usually produces very good results, but not all sites […]

  Most of us “regular people” refer to pharmaceutical products by their trade name, but that’s not the case among life sciences professionals in research and development departments. In fact, during a product’s lifecycle, chances are it has been referred to by at least four names: a chemical compound, a company code, a generic name, […]

I am very pleased to announce that Chris Cook and Praveen Gullapalli have joined the elite team of Google Search Appliance (GSA) Qualified Deployment Specialists. They join existing GSA specialists Anu Pidaparti, Allen Han, Alok Gupta, Cody Coggins, Narbeh Yousefian, Shruti Sundaresh, Yogesh Dhavale, and myself. Chris and Praveen both have extensive project experience implementing some […]

Photo Credit: Maglara / Shutterstock.com My colleague, Beth Martin, wrote a great blog post today about the benefits of using Google Search for Work. What is Google Search for Work, you ask? Think of it as using Google to search the Internet, except that you search your company’s systems instead. Take a look at the infographic below, which […]

When I wake up in the morning I have a couple of choices for what to do first.  I could brush my teeth.  I could take a shower.  Or I could fix that broken shelf in the garage. Come again?  Two of those sound very typical and easy.  But the last one is less obvious, much harder, […]