Features of Semaphore for the Google Search Appliance

Turn the Google Search Appliance into a 'Find and Discover' Engine with Better Search Results and Contextual Information

The key features of integrating Semaphore Enterprise Semantic Platform with the Google Search Appliance include:

Improved Content Findability with a User Friendly Interface

Searches that use taxonomies provide a rewarding search experience, but traditionally have a complicated user interface. Semaphore for GSA provides users with the friendly and familiar Google interface for both keyword search and taxonomy search and explore. A search begins in the usual way with a single search box.

Improved Relevance of Search Results

Due to the Semaphore content classification process, the GSA results returned are more relevant.  As a tightly integrated part of the Google indexing process, Semaphore injects high quality subject metadata into the GSA index.  The GSA relevance ranking algorithm weights metadata tagged pages higher, so 'tagged' pages return higher in the results section.

Behind the corporate firewall, this process emulates the intensive keyword tagging and search engine optimization that companies invest heavily in for their external facing websites.

Improved Contextual Information

GSA search results are surrounded by Semaphore taxonomy-driven contextual information, delivered using the Search Enhancement Server.  For example:

• a taxonomy path shows where the results live in the domain model.
• a hover over description and image provide more information about the selected topic.
• a 'topic map' represents the results broken down by different taxonomy facets.

Improved Information Discovery and Related Topics

Alongside the search results, links are provided to related topics allowing the user to identify what they need to know. These are based on relationships stored within the ontology and enable users to break down and explore subjects quickly and completely.

Links are also provided to other resources – for example web applications, structured information, experts, external websites and so on. This contextual navigation ensures that all related information and resources (including those the user may not know about) are a single click away.