. . . and that is that info from federal government websites should be findable through using private sector search engines.
Apparently up to 1000 federal websites are not searchable on Google, Yahoo, Ask, or MSN because the information is held in a way that the search engines can't index it (often behind a form that needs to be filled out).
It will be interesting to see how this changes now that Obama has named Google and Yahoo people to his inner circles of tech advisors.
Sure, the search engines probably want access to the info because it will help them. But it also seems it would really help the citizenry if all of that information was available through a standard Google search instead of having to go to the agency website and know exactly what to look for.
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