The Search Google Appliance module provides an interface to obtain search results from a dedicated Google Search Appliance (GSA) hardware device. The module can act as a replacemet for core Search, or it may operate in tandem with it.

If you will use core search along with this module, core search results will show up normally at serach/{search terms}, while Google Appliance searches will show upt at gsearch/{search terms}.

Since search index management for the GSA searches is offloaded to the GSA device, utilizing the module is a two-tier solution: (1) search management with the GSA and it's assocated (Drupal-external) tasks, and (2) defining the commiunication interface for Drupal. This module simply defines the communication interface for Drupal.

My institution utilizes a GSA for our in-dev D7 migration, but there is no D7 module for Google Search Appliance integration. I thought this may be useful since there is currently no D7 module for this.

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13rac1 commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

Project link: http://drupal.org/sandbox/mpgeek/1142554

This should be submitted to the Google Search Appliance maintainers as a D7 upgrade/port: http://drupal.org/project/google_appliance

From: http://drupal.org/node/539608

If your contributions implement existing functionality explain why you want to duplicate it or why you cannot extend any of the existing projects.

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mpgeek commented

I did apply, thanks for the guidance. I guess I'm most interested in getting a D7 version available, and I'm willing to maintain it. Is the best route to open a dialog with the D6 GSA module maintainers and go from there?

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13rac1 commented

I see you opened an issue: http://drupal.org/node/1148376 That will work well. They haven't updated the project for a while, but are both active on d.o. You may need to contact them directly to get their attention. After reviewing your work, they may add you as a maintainer.

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matason commented
Component: new project application » module

+1

Good work mpgeek, I've just used your module to integrate with Google Search Appliance in under 10 minutes, thanks!

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Status: Needs work » Closed (won't fix)

No activity in several months. Reopen and set the status to "needs review" if you are still pursuing this application.

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akshita commented

Are you able to search the keywords?

Please let me know the steps you have followed (Google Appliance module integration with Drupal 7)

I did the following:

Installed and enable dthe Module Google Appliance
Admin/config/Google appliance (Provided all the info related to Google Mini Search appliance along with the collections and frontend)

Assigned the "Google Search Form" Block to a region (http://mywebsite.com/gsearch)

But no luck when I search for any keyword.

Have you done anything else. please do the needful

what about search-results.tpl.php search-result.tpl.php (/var/www/profiles/openpublic/themes/openpublic_theme/templates) ?

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akshita commented

Hi

Is there a way to have an advance search link with google search appliance module and also sort by date is not showing the results in descending order.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance