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A search engine by and for the federal government

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Re: A search engine by and for the federal government

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

France, Argentina, etc all produce the same result. It would had been a fast test to discover that.

Sure, I tried one country name and it didn't work.

But spent the time to comment on it in an external forum lol.

Re: A search engine by and for the federal government

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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).

https://data.gov is also worth mentioning

Re: A search engine by and for the federal government

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Login.gov doesn't.. but plenty of federal sites (like IRS) are still using that id.me poppycock. Here's to hoping they prioritize a migration soon.

SSA Already announced the switch to login.gov, it looks like it will have broad support if they are starting the migration there.

I don't suppose this implies the end of the social security number as a form of identity access authorization?

Re: A search engine by and for the federal government

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

Maybe I'm dense but why would you expect a government service to not use common tooling available to them?

I think access to government services is an impoetant part of democracy. Because you have no alternative, they should be Held to higher Standards of privacy. Google doesn't need to know everything.

Re: A search engine by and for the federal government

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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...

That's because you're searching search.gov, not all government websites. Besides this being what it "obviously" is doing, the error message also states this plainly: >Are you looking for information from across government? Please search again on USA.gov. Click the "Search again on USA.gov" link above the search button here, or use the link below to go to the main USA.gov website. Search.gov is a service powering the…

"search" returns nothing to: https://find.search.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=usas...
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