A search engine by and for the federal government

  • The new tech stuff the government has been putting out is legitimately fantastic. login.gov is probably my favorite sign-in experience, maybe slightly behind Google's (and considerably ahead of Apple or Microsoft's).

  • Here's the repo:

    https://github.com/GSA/search-gov

  • Why would a .gov Web site like this have dependencies on, and information leaks to, googletagmanager.com and crazyegg.com?

  • If you click through to sign up, there is a notice that it is for official use only (FOUO).

  • The search results aren't very good

    https://tinyurl.com/seargovresults

  • A cool thing. In Germany this would not be possible. EVB-IT Cloud contracts, DSGVO and other legal stuff slow down everything and costs are exploding. No inhouse ressources available double the trouble

  • Not new, 2010 maybe? But even more ingrained as part of government's 2023 Delivering A Digital-First Public Experience guidance to all agencies. https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/09/22/fact...

  • The gov usually contracts out its coding. Waa this made contractors under the federal gov or actual gov employees?

  • Russian Gosuslugi and Ukrainian Diya coming to US!

  • I couldn’t find the search text field or button. ??

  • My first search attempt return no hits.

    "Sorry, no results found for 'Israel'. Try entering fewer or more general search terms."

    https://find.search.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=usas...