July 31, 2007 at 01:50Google Internal Search Screenshots
All of us at least once used search from Google - the world leader among search engines. Have you ever wondered what the corporate search engine of this largest company (12 thousand employees, 56 offices around the world and 100 million documents on the intranet) looks like?
Naturally, all the latest search technologies are applied and run in here ...
According to the official Google corporate blog, the company uses the Google Search Appliance (its own integrated iron and software product for corporate search) to search the internal corporate network with a bunch of unique and interesting things.
On internal corporate search, Google is testing new technologies - for this, there is a special flag under the search field that allows employees to search for information using an alternative interface, where, in fact, experiments are carried out, such as different search results, a new interesting implementation of OneBox ... After a successful internal testing, technology has every chance of getting to the main page.
Below is a screenshot showing all that creepy amount of information that is displayed by a simple request of three letters:
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This real screenshot shows what Google employees are seeing in response to their gfs search query. In the screenshot, you can see, in addition to relevant search results, the OneBox implementation mentioned above in the form of displaying contacts and bookmarks ... Also there are groups of results that help to limit the search for certain documents.
For more information, you can join the search appliance group .
Naturally, all the latest search technologies are applied and run in here ...
According to the official Google corporate blog, the company uses the Google Search Appliance (its own integrated iron and software product for corporate search) to search the internal corporate network with a bunch of unique and interesting things.
On internal corporate search, Google is testing new technologies - for this, there is a special flag under the search field that allows employees to search for information using an alternative interface, where, in fact, experiments are carried out, such as different search results, a new interesting implementation of OneBox ... After a successful internal testing, technology has every chance of getting to the main page.
Below is a screenshot showing all that creepy amount of information that is displayed by a simple request of three letters:
Clickable picture
This real screenshot shows what Google employees are seeing in response to their gfs search query. In the screenshot, you can see, in addition to relevant search results, the OneBox implementation mentioned above in the form of displaying contacts and bookmarks ... Also there are groups of results that help to limit the search for certain documents.
For more information, you can join the search appliance group .