Electronics
Leading electronics companies, such as National Semiconductor, have turned to the Google Search Appliance to provide instant, secure access to all enterprise information. 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
  • Increase productivity - According to research from IDC and Accenture, knowledge workers spend more than 25% of their time searching for information, often unsuccessfully. With Google's universal search, your engineers and other employees can find what they're looking for in less time, so you can increase your productivity and pace of innovation.

  • Manage global collaboration of engineers - Whether they're working from company headquarters or a remote station, your engineers can quickly access product documentation, engineering specifications, launch plans and millions of other documents from all over the world. And our "expert search" feature lets your employees instantly find an expert within the company on any given topic.

  • Connect the value chain - Your employees, suppliers, partners, distributors and customers will all be able to search and find relevant information, with security features to ensure that any given user's results only include information that he or she is authorized to view.

Customer Impact

"The number of searches performed each day has more than doubled. Our employees are inspired to use our intranet search when they hear it's powered by Google. They love Google because it helps them to be more productive."

- Bill Corley, Manager of Intranet Technology, National Semiconductor


National Semiconductor - A global electronics leader, National Semiconductor has 100,000 employees and 200 servers worldwide. To better share information amongst its many engineers, it selected the Google Search Appliance, and has been very pleased with the results. Here are some of the comments we received:

- "Google delivered the GB-8008 in the morning, and we had it crawling and indexing on our network that afternoon. It's amazing how simple it was to install."
- "The number of searches performed each day has increased eight to ten fold."
- "Our employees are inspired to use our intranet search when they hear it's powered by Google. They love Google because it helps them be more productive."

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Honeywell - Honeywell International is a $30 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers in the electronics, aerospace, building technology, automotive, and specialty materials industries. As part of a global effort to better organize its information, Honeywell purchased two Google Search Appliances - to satisfy the needs of both its 120,000 employees and the public seeking consumer products and business information. The company took both appliances out of the box, plugged them in, and within one day had tested and optimized the appliances.

- "The Google Search Appliance began by improving search on the intranet and website, but now helps Honeywell increase productivity through the organization. The ability to find information is the next step to keeping our technology excellence within engineering, which helps Honeywell retain its technological edge."

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