Education

 
SEARCH SOLUTIONS FOR EDUCATION
 
Leading educational institutions, such as the University of Florida , have turned to the Google Search Appliance as a simple, effective way to allow students and faculty to share everything from curriculum requirements to current research between systems that aren't integrated. The Google Search Appliance is an integrated hardware and software product that uses Google's powerful search engine technology to bring universal search to your business.

 
How you'll benefit:

  • Enhance access to information for students - Enable students to easily access
    relevant information, including course schedules, curriculum, prerequisites,
    campus activities, and other information.
  • Aggregate information in a distributed environment - Instead of paying high-priced
    consulting to integrate the multiple information silos across your institution, your
    users can easily access all information through one search box. Additionally, you
    can set appropriate access controls, to ensure students, faculty, and staff only access
    information appropriate to them.
  • Increase productivity of faculty, staff, and advisors - With Google's universal search,
    faculty can easily search for research and other documents online, and university
    staff can share any administrative documents. Additionally, advisors can spend less time
    explaining basic information to students, as much of it can be found online.

 
Customer Impact

University of Florida - Located in Gainesville, Florida, the University
of Florida is a major research university whose information needs are enormous:
300,000 documents on hundreds of servers, with 58,000 users sending up to 12,000
queries per day. In order to improve information access for students, faculty
and staff alike, the University deployed the Google Search Appliance, which
helped bring together content from a highly distributed environment and enabled
a central administrator to satisfy the diverse needs of webmasters across the
system.

"We took the Google Search Appliance and our previous solution and plugged the
top 100 searches from the UF home page into both to see who gave us the most
relevant results," says Mark Trammell, a web administrator at the university.
"Hands down, Google beat the solution we used before."
 
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