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Apache Lucene vs Google Search Appliance
Has anyone come across with the features of Apache Lucene? I heard its even comparable to Google Search Appliance (GSA). I was looking for a definite comparison between the two, if possible?
Those comparisons available online are pretty vague.

Riju Mahna
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How do I search for multiple file types on Google Search Appliance
I want to search for multiple file types at once. For example, when I want to search for ".htm" files, I add "filetype:htm" to the query and that works fine. Similarly, "filetype:html" also works. However, how can I specify a query parameter that…
Cynthia
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Software alternatives to Google Search Appliance (GSA)
I am interested in software alternatives to the Google Search Appliance (GSA) for use in a (large) university context. Has anyone experiences of migrating from GSA to an alternative solution? If so, what were the reasons for doing this (technical,…

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BadStatusLine exception raised when returning reply from server in Python 3
I am trying to port a script to python 3 that submits XML feeds found here:
https://developers.google.com/search-appliance/documentation/files/pushfeed_client.py.txt
After running 2to3.py and making a few minor adjustments to remove any syntax…

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Can a Google Search Appliance / Mini output JSON/JSONP?
Using Google Mini for a website that needs output from the Google Mini in a JSON/JSONP format for front-end querying purposes. Google Mini does publish an XML feed that could potentially be used by a middle process to convert to JSON/JSONP.
Can…

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Database connection handle issue
I am currently doing testing with Google Search Appliance (GSA) for crawling database and built a connector for handling database query and stuff.
The GSA have a crawl interval, which mean it will repeatedly crawl the database for update.
So my…

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XSL Foreach - Getting The Value
Here is a bit of XML that's in each record:
I'm trying to display all of these V values for each record with XSLT, but am having issues targeting the correct value.

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Change Result Title in Google Search Appliance
For a variety of reasons, I'd really like to be able to show the file name as the result title in our Google Mini's search results, rather than what the default is. I'm able to almost do this by replacing