OneBox for all your corporate information
Posted by Dave Girouard, VP,
Enterprise
We added
href="http://www.google.com/help/interpret.html" >OneBox
functionality to our
href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html" >Google
Search Appliance today, which means you can now find just about
anything through your friendly Google search box. Lots of folks
have been asking us - is this going to kill the corporate portal
market? For the record, we have no desire or plans to kill
anything. But it's clear to us that people prefer search to
having every possible piece of information thrust at them
willy-nilly. And they like having search front and center on their
screens, not buried, as it is all too often inside company
intranets. As industry-watcher
href="http://battellemedia.com/" >John Battelle explains, search
is so powerful because it responds to an expressed intent by the
user. Shouldn't corporate portals do the same?
Google
OneBox for Enterprise is cool because it takes a completely
understood and tested design metaphor and extends it to another
domain. Um, what I meant to say was, employees already know how to
get
href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=v for vendetta dallas, tx&btnG=Search" >
movie listings,
href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=weather omaha, ne&btnG=Search" >
weather forecasts, and
href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=united 10&btnG=Search" >
flight information through simple Google queries. So it
won't surprise them (in fact it may delight them) to learn that
they can get real-time contact info, sales forecasts, and customer
information the very same way. We launched an initial set of OneBox
modules with Oracle, Cognos, SAS and Salesforce.com; some of these
partners talk about that
href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/video.html" >here.
And there’s one more thing. We're also introducing an all-new
Mini
that's 25 times faster and half the size of its predecessor!
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