Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts

Friday, September 19, 2008

Google Search Appliance

Google recently did a presentation about their current version of the Google Search Appliance. As with my recent post of how documents work in Google Docs and how I see similar behavior in the proposed People, Ideas & Objects Draft Specification. I will be adding the key points of Google Search Appliance into the Draft Specification.

Some of the key technologies in Google Search Appliance put it in the must have category of any firm. For this project that would include project managers, users, developers, producers and Joint Operating Committees (JOC's). It solves the key concern that I have about enterprise search, that being the right access to the right data.

I recommend that all readers view the entire presentation. It highlights far too many things that are of significant value to this software development project. A few of those highlights are listed here;

  • Kerboras based User queries - makes queries recognize the scope of the users authority.
  • Single Sign On (SSO) - enables the user to maintain high level security without having to constantly log in.
  • Customized authority and authentication - able to build off the Security & Access control module of the People, Ideas & Objects application.
  • Domain Specific Queries - enables the user to request data from People, Ideas & Objects and only the information within their domain will show in the search results.
    • Document level security.
    • Key match search provides authority attributes.
  • Databases (MySQL) - can include data elements from the database as well.
  • Related Web Search - search results can include web based results.
  • Collections are indexes from Google and are unlimited technically, but overuse has a performance hit. Provides the ability to focus search in specific areas of interest.
  • Customizable "front-end" or search page.

With this search capability users will be able to access their data from anywhere and at anytime. Yet provide the JOC and producer companies the user works for with a trusted source of search technologies.

Keeping on the topic of Google and their technologies. The addition of multiple languages to this application presents a very difficult technological issue. I have set up two projects in the private wiki; the first project will address the scope of the language related technical issue. The other project is to determine if Google's Language API can provide the translation from English to the other languages that may be used by users in the People, Ideas & Objects application.

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