Our Top 3 Google Search Appliance Tips

Many of the operators available on the public Google site are useful within the Google Search Appliance. Here are a few of the most interesting ones.

1: The tilde prefix (~) is the Thesaurus / Synonym operator:

Instead of searching for
    error

Try searching for:
    ~error

A memory mnemonic, remember that in math the ~ is often used as "approximately equal to" symbol.

2: Dot dot (..) does a range search:

You can do:
    47..49

Or even use it for search years (though not full dates):
    2000..2005

3: And who could forget site: operator, useful for double checking your own spider's indexing of your public site:

For our site as of this writing, Google shows 44 docs that mention 'microsoft':
    site:ideaeng.com microsoft

When you search for 'microsoft' from our home page, you get  gives 48 docs.

Try this on your own site - if the number in your search engine is lower than the Google count, your search is missing something!

There are of course a whole bunch more Google operators, and on the other Google Web Search Help Center, but  some of these tips came from MakeUseOf