Google Creates Government Search Portal
Google has launched a new portal for search all the U.S. Government branches’ Web content. Basically it is a version of their Personalized Page portal in which you can set up modules with recent news and information from your favorite governement office. By default my page came up with modules for Weather, White House News, Washington Post News, Google News: Top Government Stories, and a few others. You can add specific content from pre-defined modules very easily as well as non-government modules like Gmail.
According to the Washington Post story (free reg. req.), this search portal will take on other portals like FirstGov. At first glance, I may like FirstGov better. The Google portal may be practical if you can narrow down your focus, or if you want to do a specific search across many branches and offices, but out of the box it just looks like another portal. Maybe I’m not their target audience, but it just seems plain to me. Just my $.02.
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