In a blog post from Google's Chicago office in 2011, Google provided some details on GWS: "The Google Web Server (GWS) team builds and improves the proprietary web-serving infrastructure that powers Google web search and many other Google search properties.
Auf einer Informationsseite über seinen Standort Chicago schrieb Google folgende Kurzbeschreibung zu GWS: “The Google Web Server (GWS) team builds and improves the proprietary web-serving infrastructure that powers Google web search and many other Google search properties.