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Search > Search Features > Front Ends > Remove URLs

Use the Search > Search Features > Front Ends > Remove URLs page for specifying URLs or URL patterns that should not be served in search results for a specific front end.

As results are being served, you may find some results that you do not want to be served to your end users. To prevent particular URLs from being served in results, you can enter URLs or URL patterns on the Search > Search Features > Front Ends > Remove URLs page. The URL patterns you provide must conform to the "Rules for Valid URL Patterns" in "Administering Crawl: Constructing URL Patterns," which is linked to the Google Search Appliance help center.

You can add URL patterns to this page at any time, and they will be removed from the served results. You can also delete the URL patterns in this window at any time to return those patterns to the served results. Because URLs are removed as users are searching, there may be some fluctuation in search result counts as URLs are filtered out one result page at a time. Take note that specifying a long list of patterns can cause increased latency at serve time.

Using this page to remove URLs affects search results only. It does not remove URLs from the search index or affect crawl.

Before Starting this Task

If you have multiple front ends for your search appliance, identify the front ends where you want to remove URLs. If you only use the default_frontend, determine if you want to remove URLs from it. If you only want to remove URLs from results for a specific group of end users, you must create a front end for this group of users.

Specifying URLs or URL Patterns for Removal

To specify a URL or URL pattern on the Search > Search Features > Front Ends > Remove URLs page:

  1. Click Search > Search Features > Front Ends > Remove URLs.
  2. Click the Edit link next to the front end from which you want to remove URLs.
  3. Click the Remove URLs tab.
  4. Type a valid URL pattern into the field.
  5. Press Enter to add additional URLs or patterns.
    Empty lines and comments starting with # are permitted.
  6. Click Update.

Related Tasks

The following table lists optional tasks related to removing URLs.

Task Method
Preventing crawling of pages that you add to the Remove URLs list or removing the URLs from the search index. You can add the same URLs to the Do Not Crawl URLs with the Following Patterns in the Content Sources > Web Crawl > Start and Block URLs page.
Creating a front end Use the Search > Search Features > Front Ends page.

For More Information

For detailed information about this topic, see "Removing URLs from Search Results" in "Creating the Search Experience: Best Practices," which is linked to the Google Search Appliance help center.

 
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