Posted on June 20 2006 U EXECmessage-137 GOOGLE Software Upgrade Distribution Senior Executive Message to the Work Force b 3 -P L 86-36 U FOUO Senior Executive Message from George R Cotter Director for Information Technology U FOUO In October 2004 the Google search engine was first introduced to the Agency This provided a powerful and robust capability for searching web content throughout the extended enterprise and was a major step in the transformation of Web World to NSALink X412 is pleased to announce an upgrade to both hardware and software for Google to version 4 4 This upgrade delivers the following enhancements Ability to search up to 15 million documents in a single query with quality ranking results Automatic spellchecking Ability to search Public Key Infrastructure PKI enabled websites Continuous Google crawling indexing of web content versus weekly crawling Ability to search non-password protected databases hosted on web servers U FOUO What does this mean to you Because of these enhancements users will have access to more than ten times as much web content as before Google 4 4 factors in more than 100 variables for each query to help you find the highest quality and most relevant documents Google 4 4 automatically suggests corrections with startling accuracy to help you avoid inaccurate results through typos or misspellings including Agency-specific words and phrases As web sites are published the data will be available within a day as opposed to the previous time of up to a week As more web servers continue the transition to universal PKI data will now be accessible from these servers Finally Google 4 4 will provide access to data stored in relational databases that are not password protected by crawling the content directly from the databases and displaying the content in a number of formats pproved for Release by NSA on 08-22-2016 1 of2 01A Case# 56155 b 3 -P L 86-36 b 3 -P L 86-36 U FOUOJ The Google 4 4 upgrade is particularly timely and aligns with the Agency's modernization goals Like its predecessor Google 4 4 has been PKI enabled so you must have a valid NTS-PKI certificate to use the search engine To access Google 4 4 the URL is or go google 2 of2 6 13 2008 2 55 PM