Posts Tagged ‘gsa’

“Are my GSA search results good?”  Well, if you don’t know, then I don’t know.  This is obviously a subjective question, and you likely know your own content much better than I do.  While I may not be able to answer the question for you, I would like to offer some tips to help objectively measure […]

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 […]

Google Search Appliance (GSA) frontend framework provides management of most of the elements for user search experience. Many times we need to customize the frontend to achieve a certain feel and HTML display for search results. Normally the changes can be done to the frontend directly via Admin Console and the GSA frontend framework can […]

You may have read recent media coverage about the SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224).  OpenSSL.org describes this vulnerability as follows: An attacker using a carefully crafted handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL SSL/TLS clients and servers. This can be exploited by a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack where the attacker can decrypt and modify traffic […]

Google often quotes that the average query submitted to their website is 1.7 words long.  That means that most queries contain only two words, and a fair number contain only one word.  Google can be magical at times, but using one or two words to search through trillions of web pages seems at best hit or miss.  In […]

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 […]

Expert Search is an important feature from Google Search Appliance (GSA). The default frontend provided out of the box support to Expert Search since 7.0. Here are a few major bullet points that involve Expert search configuration and result display. Configuration of Expert Search for frontend via Admin console (For 7.0, Social Connector → Expert […]

When customizing the XSLT stylesheet for Expert Search, I noticed many places where elements starting with /GSP/ExpertSearchConfig/ were referred. However, I have never found any Google document to explain them. From the usage of those elements in the XSLT stylesheet, they looked like the display layout configuration for Expert Search results. Given the fact that […]

With Google Search Appliance (GSA) connector framework 3.x, user group lookup is an essential part of user authorization when searching for controlled-access content, especially for early binding. During controlled-access content search, GSA first authenticates user with the authentication mechanism configured. After the user identity is resolved, GSA will pass it to the connector for group […]

Quite often we need have last access time for File share content. Google File System connector 3.x does not support it out of the box. Since Google engineers already added retrieving the information to JCIFS code base to reset last access time for SMB content  (yes, Google connector is using a modified version of JCIFS), […]

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 […]

Out of the Box The Google Search Appliance ships with a full-function — but no thrills — XSL template (XSLT) that we refer to as the ‘out of the box’ user interface.  It looks a little bit like google.com did a few years ago – lots of blue and white, and very few graphics.  But […]