The default home to 16,000 Google employees is Moma, the given name for the Google intranet. Moma’s mission: “Organize Google’s information and make it accessible and useful to Googlers.”

The Google intranet home page, with key content ‘greyed-out’

What the Google Intranet Looks Like is a case study look at the Google intranet, written by unofficial Google Bloggers Philipp Lenssen & Tony Ruscoe:

“On the top of the Google intranet homepage, you’ll find the logo reading “Moma - Inside Google.” Next to it is a search box allowing you to find information from Moma in general, information on specific Google employees, information on availability of meeting rooms, building maps and more. You can choose to include secure content or not via a checkbox. Another checkbox offers you to use “Moma NEXT" for a more experimental variant of search results.

 

To the top right, there’s an option to switch to iMoma, an iGoogle-style tool prepared by the company which allows further customization of the intranet start page. This way, employees may be able to select their own news and service widgets of interest to be displayed when they log-in.

 

The actual content of the homepage in the picture is split up into 4 columns. To the left, there’s a “My Office” section, with information for employees and a way to choose your own office for more relevant links. It’s followed by the sections “Survival Kit” and “My shortcuts.” In the middle columns, news gadgets are headlined “Welcome to Google!,” “Communications,” “HR” (human resources), “Company Info” and “Internal Google news,” all in common soft shades of Google base colors. The right column is listing Google teams."

This is a very limited, scatter-shot case study but it has some interesting screens.

The Official Google Enterprise Blog provides some insight into Google’s own intranet search engine with a sanitized screenshot of the search results produced on Moma.

On a side note... Lessen & Roscoe say that a lot of Google employees don’t use Google’s own social networking site, and instead prefer to use Facebook…. Oh well, follow the leader J

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