Kiewit - Google Search - Cayla Torgerson

Kiewit Corporation

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations. The employee-owned company operates through a network of offices and projects in the United States, Canada and Australia. Nearly all construction projects are staffed by one or more owners of our company.

*Please feel free to ask me questions regarding this project. It is a private sector application

Solutions

Kiewit did not have an enterprise class search engine that could search structured and un-structured data. Over 40% of the responses on the 2014 Annual Application Satisfaction Survey indicated that employees say “information is hard to find” or “I spend too much time looking for documents, but never find what I’m looking for. Improving the usefulness and relevance of searching will impact nearly every Kiewit employee and allow each one to more efficiently find what they’re looking for.

Kiewit has a high priority for taking care of its employees, search engine solution to provide immediate efficiency to all Kiewit users.

I focused primarily on how I could organization of the data needed to be linked and how we could display all options for an employee to get information. I worked very close with development to make sure we got all the information needed all in one place. Using Custom Google Search, I was able to utilize all the full features,

Benefits using Google Custom Search

Google Custom Search enables you to create a search engine for your website, your blog, or a collection of websites, a creating a custom search engine that will search structured and well un-structured data

Custom Search provides structured search operators that enable you to drill down into subsets of search results based on structured data found in your pages or the metadata associated with the images on your sites. Topical search engine is an engine that focuses on a particular topic. It covers a part of the whole Web rather than a particular website – this is possible because Google Custom Search allows you to include multiple websites in the same engine.