Google Search Appliance version 5.2 released for the GB-1001
January 5th, 2009
An update was released last week for the Google Search Appliance. Version 5.2 has been updated and released for the GB-1001. It also contains some bug fixes from the previous version as well.
Below are a list of version 5.2 includes the following features (Copied from here). A detail of the fixes in the release can be found here.
The latest Google Search Appliance gives users secure access to more content sources, with enhanced search quality and new user interface options.
End User Features
Personalized Search Experience
Allow administrators to adjust search results for different user groups, based on department or function.
Alerts
Employees can subscribe to email alerts for topics and documents of interest, choosing an hourly, daily, or weekly schedule.
Spellchecker in Six New Languages
French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
Enterprise Content
Languages
Restrict search results to any of 27 auto-detected languages including administrative functions in five new languages (Czech, English-UK, Portuguese-Portugal, Turkish, Vietnamese); contextual spell checking for all end users in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
Security and Access Control
Kerberos Support
Provide native support for Kerberos, enabling a silent authentication experience for end-users.
Metadata Biasing
Administrators can bias results based on metadata (in addition to biasing based on source, URL or date).
Advanced Reporting
View and export daily and hourly result sets, top queries, special feature usage, and more. Report for every query, including reports on which queries receive no clicks by a user and how often users are clicking on sponsored links in comparison to organic search results or OneBox modules.
Administration and Customization
Localized Administration
Administer your Google Search Appliance around the globe in 27 different languages. Full administration is now supported in Basque, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), English (UK), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
