Google Training: Search Appliance

Fig Leaf Software is the 1st ever Google GSA Certified Training Parnter. We've trained hundreds of Google Search Appliance customers around the world with the Certified Google GSA courseware.

Google Fundamentals: GSA-100 Google Search Appliance Configuration of the Google Search Appliance for indexing content and serving results. This 3 day session will enable administrators effectively configure their Google Search Appliance. This course introduces the fundamentals of crawling and indexing web based content, adding non-web content directly into the index through feeds, and serving the search results. This course was developed by Google and is an integral component of the Google Enterprise Professional program.

Price: $1795.00
GSA Price: $1795.00
3 days, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Course Prerequisites

Having an information technology technical background is required. Concepts covered require a basic understanding of html, xml, sql, web-servers, databases and content management systems.

Course Outline

Day 1: Crawling and serving web content

Serving results to users
Continuous crawler
Crawl Diagnostics
Administration console

What are Front Ends
Page Layout Helper
KeyMatch
Related Queries
Filtering documents by language, document type and meta tags
Remove URLs
Query Expansion
Test Serving
Understand the difference between client and proxystylesheet query parameters

What is a Collection?
Why create Collections?
Default Collection
Collection query parameter
Performance impacts of other alternatives
User Roles
Administrator versus Manager

What is query expansion?
Modifying the stylesheet to set the level of expansion
Managing a user defined expansion list
Managing a blacklist

Day 2: Onebox Modules, Indexing with feeds

What is a One Box Module?
Why create a One Box Module?
One Box examples from google.com
Triggers
Internal versus external One Box modules
XSLT stylesheet for One Box results
Security
Integrate One Box Module within Front End

What is a Feed?
Why use a Feed?
Difference between feeds: Web, Metadata and Content
XML file parameters
Why lock content through a feed
Meta data indexing

What is a Database Feed?
Indexing meta data along with content
From a URL location within the database
From Blob data within the database
Crawl Query
Serve URL versus Serve Query
Modifying the database stylesheet

Day 3: Reporting, Security, Modifying XSLT stylesheet

Crawl diagnostics
Crawl Queue
Service Status
Search Reports
What is the link command?
Google Meta Tags
Google Page Tags
Advanced Front Ends
Security
Administration
Version Manager
Google Search Appliance Configuration

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Class Schedule

Location	Dates	Instructor	Register

Chicago, IL	Sep 15 - Sep 17	Bob Segal	register

Las Vegas, NV	Sep 09 - Sep 11	Dave Gallerizzo	register

Phoenix, AZ	Oct 22 - Oct 24	Dave Watts	register

San Francisco, CA	Sep 03 - Sep 05	Dave Watts	register

Washington, DC	Aug 25 - Aug 27	Dave Gallerizzo	register

Washington, DC	Sep 29 - Oct 01	Dave Watts	register

Washington, DC	Oct 29 - Oct 31	Bob Segal	register

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Google Search Appliance Training - GOOGLE CERTIFIED

Course Prerequisites

Course Outline

Day 1: Crawling and serving web content

Day 2: Onebox Modules, Indexing with feeds

Day 3: Reporting, Security, Modifying XSLT stylesheet