Elastic Workplace Search improves team productivity by unifying all content platforms (Google Drive, Github, Gira, Confluence, Salesforce, etc.) into a personalized Search experience. With its easy and flexible deployment (on Elastic Cloud or as a free self-management download), pre-tuned relevance, and intuitive interface, Elastic Workplace Search can help you and your teammates get back to work. If you’re not familiar with Elastic Workplace Search, please read my previous post:

  • Solutions: Elastic Workplace Search: Search everything anytime, Anywhere
  • Solutions: Elastic Workplace Search: Search everything anywhere, Anytime (Part 2)

For today’s article, we’ll assume that you’ve created your own Elastic Workplace Search site and have it up and running. We can easily use it in our search box via Chrome browser Settings.

Set up Elastic Workplace Search as a Search engine in Chrome

Configuring Chrome

Let’s start with the Chrome configuration page:

Click the Add button above:

In the above, my Workplace Search address for Workplace. Elastic. Dev/ws/Search. You need to fill in according to your actual address. Click the Add button above. So our Settings in Chrome are already configured.

 

Start Workplace Search in Chrome

Next, we open Chrome, type EWS in the address bar, and press the space bar:

We type in the keyword we want to search for elasticSearch and type Enter:

Next you can see all the documentation for ElasticSearch from Github, Team Drives and Wiki.

Isn’t it quick to use? We can enable Workplace Search to Search our data anytime, anywhere.