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This page describes crawling limits on HTML frames and framesets and on file formats.

The Google Search Appliance begins crawling from the URLs you specify on the Crawl and Index > Crawl URLs page. When a page is crawled, it is automatically indexed.

Crawling Frames and Framesets

To crawl framesets and their nested frames, the framesets must be well-formed with the <frame> tags occurring within the <frameset> tag. Anchors (links) must also occur within the frameset. Depending on the particular structure of your site, the search results may point to the frameset page itself or to the individual frame pages. There is not a way to specify which behavior you prefer.

File Formats that the Search Appliance Crawls and Indexes

The search appliance can crawl, index, and search word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and other formats.

For More Information

For information about supported file formats, see "Indexable File Formats," which is linked to the Google Search Appliance help center.