Media

SEARCH SOLUTIONS FOR MEDIA

Many leading media companies, such as Ziff Davis Media, have installed the
Google Search Appliance for enhanced website and internal search. 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

• Timely access to information - In media companies, timing is everything. Your customers and
  employees need to access up-to-the-minute information from all corners of the
  world. Having the Google Search Appliance instantly access information from
  all other internal systems will empower your employees to be able to meet
  deadlines and make quick decisions.
• Configure to your needs - With the Google Search Appliance, you can build on the familiar
  Google interface and customize the search results to exactly how you need them. This
  includes features such as Collections and KeyMatch.
• Enhance user experience - When searching for information online, users are very impatient -
  they want the exact information immediately. The Google Search Appliance enables relevant
  search results served instantly.

Customer Impact

Ziff Davis Media - Ziff Davis Media is a leading integrated media company,
with publications including PC Magazine and eWeek, and its web sites attracting 11-12 million
unique visitors per month. For their website search, they chose the Google Search Appliance
and have been very pleased with the results. "We've made a marked leap forward
with the Google Search Appliance by bringing the more relevant content to the forefront", says
Young Further.

Discovery Communications - Discovery hosts information-packed sites for each
of its 14 channels, which collectively garner 120,000 search queries a day. A previous search
product was difficult for the Discovery web team to maintain, because it required extensive
resources in order to update relevancy algorithms when new content was added to the network.

After installing the Google Search Appliance, results were immediate. "Not only have
pageviews increased, but the number of daily searches has grown 70 percent based
on the value of searching with Google", says Patrick Gardella in the Discovery
IT department. "More people are finding information they need, which means they
stay longer to read, search further, and shop."

PBS - PBS.org is the most visited dot-org site in the world, with
127,000 web pages and member station sites. PBS bought several Google Search Appliances, to
search both the dot-org content and their member sites. "We reviewed the product for a
couple of weeks. Actual installation took just a few hours, including the first crawl and index.
[Furthermore]...XML/XSL has made this very configurable for us. The way Google Search Appliance
is set up is really brilliant. It has absolutely been worth it."