User Guide

This page contains basic FAQs on the Google Search Appliance for the general UQ community. If you are a web developer, use the developers guide.

A. Basic FAQ

1. What is a Google Search Appliance?
2. How is the appliance different from the public Google search?
3. Is every web page published at UQ indexed in the search appliance?
4. How do I add a page to the Google’s index? How can I remove pages?
5. How many documents are in the UQ GSA license?
6. Will the appliance crawler follow the URLs found within non-html documents?
7. What file formats can the appliance index?
8. How are ranking and relevancy determined?
9. Can the GSA index documents in Microsoft Sharepoint?
10. Where I get more information on the Google Search Appliance?

B. Google Search Tips

The Google Search Tips page introduces you to basic search concepts, and describes advanced techniques that will help you produce more efficient search results.

Link: http://www.uq.edu.au/uqsearch/search-tips

C. Google Search Appliance Documentation

UQ is using Google Search Appliance version 5.0. Click on the link below to look up more information about the GSA.

Link: http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/50/