Google to Launch Government Search Site 123
Billosaur writes "Word has come out via the Washington Post on Google's plan to launch a
a tool for searching US Government web sites. The tool, usgov.google.com, is meant to be used by Federal employees who may need to search across several different sites for information, and '...is also designed to help citizens navigate convoluted pages of government-speak and tailor news feeds to their interests. Users can customize the layout of their page to remain updated on government-related news from official and commercial sources, including the White House, Department of Defense, The Washington Post and CNN. Google is also working with agencies to increase the frequency of news updates to keep content current.'"
Hardly new - this search was already in google (Score:5, Informative)
Don't forget firstgov.gov.. since 2000 (Score:1)
Firstgov has been serving this function for 6 years. http://firstgov.gov/ [firstgov.gov]
Re:Don't forget firstgov.gov.. since 2000 (Score:1)
Re:Hardly new - this search was already in google (Score:1)
What a non-story. (Score:4, Funny)
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
Be careful! (Score:5, Funny)
"Please enter your employee login and password to continue."
Those sneaky Googlers...
Re:Be careful! (Score:1)
I don't think so. I searched using the term 'bullshit' [google.com] and I was able to access virtually every result.
Re:Be careful! (Score:3, Funny)
this is great.. i would have loved to been there when this was created
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/05n0345/
Re:Be careful! (Score:1)
Re:Be careful! (Score:1)
KFG
Use it to find hacked sites (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Use it to find hacked sites (Score:2)
D*** G-men, changed the site... (Score:1)
So what did it say? What the AC replied to your comment?
Re:D*** G-men, changed the site... (Score:2)
Re:Use it to find hacked sites (Score:2)
http://64.233.161.104/unclesam?q=cache:xyJ5Dvqg_CA J:tools.ca.sandia.gov/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Pag e [64.233.161.104]
(Again, "view page source".) It's got these comments "we are delicate, we do not delete your content" and then a bunch of URLs to various spam/warez sites.
Yes, but more importantly... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes, but more importantly... (Score:2)
Key's are in the freezer.
All joking aside, my brother used to call information(this was before the internet existed.) and ask questions like that.
Scary thing is, they were ofter correct.
Re:Yes, but more importantly... (Score:2)
And the dog needs to be let outside. Now.
If the shoe fits (Score:1)
I'm glad. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait, there they are knocking on the door now. Guess I don't need the government search site after all.
Re:I'm glad. (Score:3, Insightful)
Well after today's supreme court decision, knocking probably means it isn't the government, because they don't have to knock anymore.
Re:I'm glad. (Score:2)
So, uh... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not holding my breath.
It works perfectly! (Score:4, Funny)
Your search returned no results
Re:It works perfectly! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So, uh... (Score:2)
you can do this manually (Score:5, Informative)
You can just use the regular google search with site:.gov OR site:.us OR site:.mil (maybe a few others) appended to your search to get the same results.
Compare these results:usgov search [google.com]
manual search [google.com]
I don't get it? (Score:2)
Re:you can do this manually (Score:2, Insightful)
Then maybe the U.S. wouldn't need to resorting to massively spying on everyone, torturing people, invading random countries, etc. to deal with this
Re:you can do this manually (Score:2)
Re:you can do this manually (Score:2)
I'm guessing it didn't register with you I was being sarcastic and making a kind of joke.
If you recall history, as posted on slashdot, one or more computer companies have attempted to upgrade the FBI's computer systems under the code name Trilogy and Virtual Case Files. I believe SAIC and or CSC. Tens of millions were spent and the software developed was so bad last I remember it was never deployed, which is kind of standard for government contracted software developme
Re:you can do this manually (Score:2)
There's a definite difference between the two searches. I wonder what the basis for that difference is. One might jump to the conclusion that there's some kind of censorship going on, were one fully outfitted with a TFH.
Re:you can do this manually (Score:2)
And anyway, why is the federal government so unpatriotic as to not use .gov.us instead of .gov? You'd think they loved their country more than that...
You are correct (Score:1)
the reason why the govt gets to use
Peek at future slashback: (Score:2)
They'll never learn... (Score:2)
Re:They'll never learn... (Score:1)
Well, it appears to be working (Score:5, Interesting)
14,000 results for "do not distribute" [google.com].
Now all they have to do is learn what not to index :)
Even worse! (Score:3, Interesting)
The results are astounding, someone should get fired over this.
Re:Even worse! (Score:2)
Just reading one. It contains internal government emails, private correspondence between a client and their attourney.
The start cracks me up though "you need to start reading from the bottom and read up" - Outlook users, lol.
Re:Even worse! (Score:2)
"The unauthorized disclosure or interception of e-mail is a federal crime. See 18 U.S.C
SEC.251 7(4)."
Someone's toast.
Re:Well, it appears to be working (Score:2)
Re:Well, it appears to be working (Score:2)
Re:Well, it appears to be working (Score:2)
Re:Well, it appears to be working (Score:3, Interesting)
A couple are irrelevant but the signal to noise is much better than the GP query.
Re:Well, it appears to be working (Score:1)
refine it further with intitle:"do not distribute". [google.com]
23 results.
Re:Well, it appears to be working (Score:2)
a highly restrictive criterion. It seems to me that "Do not distribute" could accompany any
number of qualifiers on a title page, but not be part of the actual title.
Re:Well, it appears to be working (Score:2)
top secret filetype:xls [google.com]
confidential filetype:mdb [google.com]
Wee.
Re:Well, it appears to be working (Score:2)
Its also interesting to read all the sping earlier years. I typed in "Weapons of mass destruction" and gives you details on how Iraq had WMD. lol.
Let me be the first to say: Cool (Score:1)
In Soviet Russia... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In Soviet Russia... (Score:1, Funny)
Careful of those typos...
Can't this be done? (Score:1)
Oh boy, here comes trouble (Score:2)
FOIA (Score:1, Interesting)
I got it up now! (Score:2)
Nothing for you to see here, please move along.
Looks like the site is working fine. All the information the govenerment wants accessable to the people is at my fingertips.
That title is just *wrong*. (Score:5, Funny)
Uh, congrats?
Totally Broken (Score:2)
shhhh (Score:1)
-- TRANSMISSION TERMINATED. GOOD-BYE
Dear NSA, please open a file on me (Score:4, Insightful)
Thank you,
John Citizen
Re:Dear NSA, please open a file on me (Score:2)
Interesting news (Score:1)
Quick! (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm, how do I search for those black marks they use to cover all the good words?
Do Not Index this posting (Score:1)
Re:Quick! (Score:2)
Engage the cloak! (Score:1)
I hope Google adds a "euphanism" translator while they're at it. I can see an explosion of new words and phrases being made to try obfuscating information and guiding public opinion. Not that it hasn't been going on already...
Great, I know exactly what this leads too (Score:2, Funny)
Two months from now, DoD sys admins will be told to block Google.
Twenty years from now, the following questions will still be on the security clearance application form:
206. Have you ever used any of the following "hackor" tools:
SATAN YES/NO
PGP YES/NO
Google YES/NO
Thankfully... (Score:2)
A true testament to Google's ability to gracefully decay when replacing all the substantive information with political crud.
I hope it is useful (Score:3, Insightful)
If the don't, the terrorists have won. (Heck, that argument seems to work for anything Bush wants.)
Logs (Score:1)
Chineese Government Search (Score:3, Funny)
Nothing found for your search.
IP Logged.
A re-branded Uncle Sam search? (Score:1)
Quick! (Score:1)
(Note: this is an example of sarcasm. Enjoy. If you actually have the connections to register Google.gov, please move along, this isn't the tax payer you're looking for.)
Re:Quick! (Score:1)
It's a bit expensive though, at $125/year.
tax code just got easier... (Score:4, Funny)
Speaking as a Political Science student... (Score:2, Funny)
Top Secret! (Score:2)
google keywords (Score:1)
Google Search: inurl:www.nsa.gov "index of" Area 51 *.doc, *.pdf
Google Results:
index of/Area 51
roswell report hoax.pdf
bush is an alien.doc
bill gates is from mars.doc
bill gates report.pdf
click bill gates report.pdf
xpdf runs Project: BGR (Bill Gate Report)
!@#!@%$^
In America (Score:2)
In Soviet Russia, the Government Searches you.
"Beware of the leopard" (Score:3, Funny)
"I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the Display Department."
"With a torch."
"The lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But you found the plans, didn't you?"
"Oh yes, they were 'on display' in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the leopard.'"
Now you'll be able to simply create an RSS feed for your house.
new features (Score:1)
The real purpose (Score:1)
So where will they lean? (Score:1)
As usual, the first hit is all you need to know (Score:2)
Google to Launch Government Search Site (Score:1)
So much better than gov's doing it themselves (Score:1)
As ever - the British Government wasted millions of pounds on a poorly thought through and badly implemented project to bring all of e-government together - direct.gov.uk.
Specifically to the google point; some British techs came up with the rather cheaper www.directionlessgov.com - which compares google results when you search for government terms to the results from direct.gov.uk. Unsurprisingly - goog
Latest news! (Score:1)
Porn (Score:2)
Too bad they don't have a US Gov Image Google search as well, would have loved to see what "porn" would have returned. However a text search on "porn" returns almost only stuff about "child porn".
It also teaches you about interesting things, such as Dial-a-Porn [utah.gov], that porn will damage you and your whole family [senate.gov], that PORN [nih.gov] can be a bad disease, that Porn can be a last name [nih.gov], or even that P2P actually means Porn-to-Porn [216.239.59.104] (notice the name of the poster btw)
Google taught me new things again today!
Surely this isn't new? (Score:1)
I love it personally, but come on it wasn't really NEW news.
Re: (Score:1)
Hope for improvement... (Score:1)
there ya go mr bush! look for him through this! (Score:1)
That will show him!
NSA + Google = Teh New MySpace? (Score:1)
Government & Google (Score:1)
What if, for whatever reason, the current 'policy makers' at Google quit their job and