Google Search Appliance (GSA) - The difference between Crawl and Index and Feeds
Google Search Appliance (GSA) - Getting URL's into your index. Why might you use the "Crawl and Index" vs the "Feed"function? If you are having some fun setting up a Google Search Appliance (GSA) you might be having some difficulties finding a proper description of how to use the various ways to get documents into the GSA's index. Basically there is two methods to get documents into a GSA: Crawling and Indexing Start Crawling from the Following URLs Follow and Crawl Only URLs with the Following Patterns Do Not Crawl URLs with the Following Patterns: Feeds Web Feed Content Feed The main problem I found with Google's help on this topic is that there are a ton of different ways to learn about how to configure the device to crawl and it mostly focus on Option 1 - Crawling and Indexing and not on Feeds. If you are a Corporate you'll most likely want to control what gets indexed in a very controlled manner. Where I work quickly fou...