Google Builds Government Search Site

By the Betanews Staff | Published June 15, 2006, 1:29 PM

Google on Thursday rolled out a special U.S. government search built using the company's customized homepage platform. The site lets users quickly search for IRS forms, locate a DMV Web site and find phone numbers to local government offices. The latest Government-related news is also displayed.

"It's a site on which you can 1) search across a huge index of U.S. Federal, state and local government websites via a single search box, and 2) stay up to date through personalized content feeds from government agencies and press outlets," said Google product manager Kevin Gough. "Off you go."

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I hope this comes to Singapore. Sometimes looking for one telephone number can be hell even though our e-Government service is purportedly one of the best in the world.

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With the way things in the US have been going lately, I couldn't help but think
"The US, were the government searches you."
That was before I read the article.

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Nah...

In Soviet Russia, Government Search Sites Build Google!

-Er....sorry, been reading too much Slashdot.

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Why bad-mouth a company that has such great technology. If you don't like it, don't use it.

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The Mark of the Beast.

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That'd be 666.

Have a point, or did you mistake this forum for a theology site?

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hes just trying to be funny with his idiotic comment "google is the devil"

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Ah.

In that case, perhaps someone should inform him that it's not really all that funny...

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To you......

LOL :D

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Well, ya know what they say...

Simple minds, simple pleasures. :)

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Exactly.

Remove the log from your own eye before trying to take the splinter out of mine. ;)

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Ooh! Quotes?

"An Eye for an Eye makes the whole world Blind."
-Ghandi

I mean, you couldn't *possibly* have been using that quote to imply something, Mr "Google is the Devil".

Talk about logs....

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Glad I got ya fired up.

Enjoy your evening. :D

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Nice, but i saw that one comeing.
I've used that one myself.

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If ya call that fired up, you've missed the fun of a few recent articles. ;)

I will. I've been enjoying the entire week, actually. Vacation is such a beautiful thing.

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Bwaaaahahahahahaha! :D

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WWW is the mark, the internet is now self aware and is in fact the beast WWW=666

http://www.av1611.org/666/www_666.html

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