Course Prerequisites

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
• Peformance impacts of other alternatives
• User Roles
• Administrator versus Manager

The following 4 bullet items are applicable only to the GSA and not to the Google Mini.

• 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 Modules?
• 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

The following 13 bullet items are applicable only to the GSA and not to the Google Mini.

• What is a Feed?
• Why use a Feed?
• Difference between feeds: Web, Metadata, and Conten
• XML File parameters
• Why lock content through a feed
• Meta data indexing
• What is a Database feed?
• Indexing meta data along with content
• From 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