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Global Knowledge

Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and business training, is Certified Google Enterprise Parner and the first Google Search Appliances certified partner in the EMEA region.

Google Enterprise Partners are experts who provide value-added services and integrated products to Google customers. The program is in place to facilitate Google partners’ business growth, from understanding new product features to supporting new software and services development, including in-depth product training.

Global Knowledge is committed to bring you expert training and learning solutions to give you maximum value from your GSA investment.

Google Search Appliance Fundamentals (GSA-100)

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.

Candidates should have a technical IT-background. The concepts covered in the GSA-100 training require a basic understanding of html, xml, sql, web-servers, databases and content management systems.

Google Search Appliance training can be taken at various Global Knowledge Training Centers in Europe:

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

For more information, please contact your local Global Knowledge office.