Chapter 37: Creating a Google Enterprise

In This Chapter

• Finding out how easy Google Desktop is to administer across an enterprise

• Creating your own business user interface by customizing Google Toolbar

• Learning how to provide powerful mapping to your business applications

• Seeing what topics people are interested in searching over time and seeing trends

Google does lots of things well, especially creating an enterprise. In a short amount of time, Google has taken its search technology and leveraged itself onto Fortune 500’s 2006 list of fastest-growing companies. Google has managed to grow quickly by partnering with millions of other businesses of all sizes. Information is “King in the World” on Google Enterprise, and Google has made no secret that it hopes to be a portal to the world’s information.

Most people know Google through its end-user tools, primarily the Google Search box, and a smaller number through services such as Gmail and Google Talk. In a continuing effort to bring its innovation to the world, Google has taken some of its most successful tools and turned them into Enterprise products, including Google Desktop for Enterprise, Google Maps for Enterprise, and important business tools such as Google Trends that helps you see what direction your interests are going on the Internet based on the massive amount of data Google collects about search trends.

Visit the Google Enterprise home page at www.google.com/enterprise/, and you might think that Google’s solution for the enterprise is hardware-based. This is partially true, and Google’s hardware is discussed in detail in the next chapter. This chapter covers some of the enterprise-level software solutions you’ll want to incorporate into your small, medium, or large business, creating your own Google Enterprise.