Google Pushes for a More Searchable Federal Web

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Google pushes for a more searchable federal web

For years, the U.S. government has been unwilling or unable to make millions of its web pages accessible to search engines. Now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a unique opportunity to change that as an informal adviser to President-Elect Barack Obama. Much of the information that the search engines are asking for is already available on the Web, but users have become accustomed to finding information by typing queries into one of the engines—and give up if they don’t find it....Washington Post, Dec. 11